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Philosophy Quotes
"Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them."
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"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim."
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"Those who realize their folly are not true fools."
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler."
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"There is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go..."
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"It's too late to change the world, but, hopefully it's not too late to change ourselves."
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"The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I'm not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they're called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation."
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"Time is not something to be killed. Doing so suffocates a part of us, writing off part of our life that could, or rather should, be spent doing something meaningful."
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"Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more."
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"The mind is the master of the soul, and the soul is the master of your universe. Learn to master your mind."
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"That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way."
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"You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound."
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"If we were never depressed we should not be alive, it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed."
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"We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution makes it even clearer. But it doesn't. It is by no means clear that it means anything at all. Or if it means anything, it means so many different things to be misleading, even pernicious."
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"What do you do when you are faced with several different gods each claiming the same territory? The Babylonian Marduk and the Greek Zeus was each considered master of the sky and king of gods. You might also decide, since they had quite different attributes, that one of them was merely invented by the priests. But if one, why not both? And so it was that the great idea arose, the realization that there might be a way to know the world without the god hypothesis; that there might be principles, forces, laws of nature, through which the world could be understood without attributing the fall of every sparrow to the direct intervention of Zeus."
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"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space."
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"But it is obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it is precisely life that makes this encounter possible and since, without life, the absurdist wager would have no basis. To say that life is absurd, the conscience must be alive."
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"Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable."
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"The one who did not understood that his time's root supports his life tree was born in vain."
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"You may GIVE UP in self-denial but you GIVE"IN in denial of self."
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"Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways cannot be known, oh man." Which is to say, "My ways do not make sense, nor do the ways of those who dwell in me."
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"At night all cats are grey."
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"One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment."
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"No, it's human, Curran said. That's the problem. People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders. Doing as your told."
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"What do you want to do with your life, then? is often the question I'm asked.To be honest, I don't know. I really don't.Mainly because I don't see myself living long enough for that to make much of a difference."
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"Reality is just a matter of perception."
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"Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith."
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"This poem was meant to be unwritten. But I am writing it now and have thereby changed destiny."
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"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
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"What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them."
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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?"
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"I died for beauty but was scarceAdjusted in the tomb,When one who died for truth was lainIn an adjoining room.He questioned softly why I failed?"For beauty," I replied."And I for truth, the two are one;We brethren are," he said.And so, as kinsmen met a night,We talked between the rooms,Until the moss had reached our lips,And covered up our names."
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"We each come to create the reality we believe we deserve."
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"There should be a purpose and meaning given to life."
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"Only those of us live for centuries that decided not to live in their short lives."
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"The thought system which dominates our culture is laced with selfish values, and relinquishing those values is a lot easier said than done. The journey to a pure heart can be highly disorienting. For years, we may have worked for power, money or prestige. Now all of a sudden we've learned that these are just the values of a dying world."
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"Lice consume grass, rust consumes iron, and lying the soul!"
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"There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another-if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't."
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"Life is but a sleep disturbed By dreaming."
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"Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life. In this life there are many forms of hell that people walk through, sometimes for a day, sometimes for years, sometimes it doesn't end. The kind of hell that doesn't burn your skin; but burns your soul. The kind of hell that people can't see; but the flames lap at your spirit. Heaven is a place on earth, too! It's where you feel freedom, where you're not afraid. No more chains. And you hear your soul laughing."
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"Little is the imagination of the person who believes that the future of another may be determined by his/her past. We are so much more than our minds and our memories! We are in fact transcendent souls. If you determine what is ahead by what you can see when you look back, then you will in fact never behold what actually stands in front of you."
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"If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom."
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"If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact."
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"If your needs are little, you are rich enough."
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"Humility is hard when someone has things like wealth, knowledge, & recognition that may tempt him/her behave and act pridefully. Otherwise, worrying about pride without these factors that predispose you, it is just an illusion."
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"When humanity dies, what happens to all the people?"
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