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Philosophy Quotes
"When humanity dies, what happens to all the people?"
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"The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides."
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"Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory."
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"When you get down to it, though, explaining what you believe isn't all that easy. If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things-that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact. I don't logically see how one single word can have contradictory definitions, but emotionally, I completely understand. Because there are times I think what I am doing is right, and there are other times I second-guess myself every step of the way."
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"Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes."
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"We see, surrounding the narrow raft illuminated by the flickering light of human comradeship, the dark ocean on whose rolling waves we toss for a brief hour; all the loneliness of humanity amid hostile forces is concentrated on the individual soul, which must struggle alone, with what of courage it can command, against the whole weight of a universe that cares nothing for its hopes and fears. Victory, in this struggle with the powers of darkness, is the true baptism into the glorious company of heroes, the true initiation into the overmastering beauty of human existence."
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"It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity."
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"Think like a maverick, Fight like a gladiator, Love with a humble heart and Die for a cause worth dying for... Be a "game changer"....The basic tenets of my life philosophy."
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"There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly."
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"But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning."
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"Sufism," according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure."
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"I am responsible for my life, my happiness, and my joy. I am responsible for my faults, which will destroy."
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"Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples."
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"Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less."
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"Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy."
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"Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it."
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"I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ."
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"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."
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"Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures."
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"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
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"The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?"
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"You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved."
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"We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present."
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"Sin, like a deadly cancer, has invaded every area of our lives: our bodies, our minds, our emotions, our wills-everything."
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"I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label."
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"What is hidden is often more important than what is seen."
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"Mastering our thoughts can only be achieved after we truly understand what reality is. Thus, it is time to shatter your pre-conceived concept of reality. First, the majority of what you perceive as reality exists only in your mind, and, chances are, you spend most hours of your life in this illusion."
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"The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it."
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"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."
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"When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart."
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"Light and flow is what shifts the world's vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition."
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"In some ways, we are traveling in time now. We just happened to be prisoners of the present in the eternal transition from the past to the future."
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"The actual, expanded consciousness, reality of our planet is that all of life is LOVE; our very existence is LOVE. Everything that exists is just varying degrees of this LOVE; polar absolutes do not exist. Good versus evil is pure illusion. Even the most seemingly "negative person with ill intent is still in the spectrum of love."
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"Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse discretions apply elsewhere."
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"We live as One Man for contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude or expanding: we behold as one."
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"Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go."
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"Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?"
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"The ignorance of the world often makes people believe that life should be black and white " that you must choose sides " and so the world of colourful gradients goes unadmired."
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"They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree."
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"Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable."
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"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."
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"I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same."
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"I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me."
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"Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time."
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"Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations."
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"Blaming our past for not taking action to change our destiny for good is taken from a weak man's playbook..."
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"You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway."
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