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Philosophy Quotes
"...the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain."
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"I believe in angels because the Bible says there are angels, and I believe the Bible to be the true Word of God."
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"I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death."
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"What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?"
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"Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience."
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"Who has believed in the world and died with its name on his lips?"
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"What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable."
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"...and when we die we die alone I cry, I cry aloneLike a piece of stone I am thrown into the wavy ocean of lifeto atone...to atoneOnly to atone..."
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"There is such a thing as a small and cramped eternity. You may see it in many modern religions."
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"Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid."
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"From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon."
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"Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result."
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"All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong, he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm."
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"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."
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"I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like."
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"Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare."
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"Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed."
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"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common."
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"We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one like me."
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"Finding your purpose is a lifelong adventure. Enjoy the journey."
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"It was cruel. Like opening a birdcage to let the bird fly out, whilst all the while it's tethered by the leg, and freedom is only an illusion."
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"We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die."
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"Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at see, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us. Catastrophe has become art; but this is no reducing process. It is freeing, enlarging, explaining. Catastrophe has become art: that is, after all, what it is for."
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"The concept of Free Will makes no sense unless associated, somehow or the other, with Absolute Determinism; it is just as a man cannot walk without gravity arresting and spurring his pace simultaneously."
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"Philosophy cannot be taught, it is the application of the sciences to truth."
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"Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above."
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"What if - is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions-? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes - the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or, spin it another way, sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?"
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"There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together."
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"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."
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"Conquer yourself, the world is you!"
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"Search for the stranger inside you, forgotten even by your death."
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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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"There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth somewhere in the middle."
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"In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists."
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"You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string."
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"What the psychological analysis of doctrines can show is the subjective motivations which make a person aware of certain problems and make him seek answers in certain directions. Any kind of thought, true or false, is motivated by the subjective needs and interests of the person who is thinking. It happens that some interests are furthered by finding the truth, others by destroying it."
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"Without emotion, what's the point of being human?"
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"Men strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer had enemies he would have to invent them for his strength only grows from struggle."
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"This was hell then, it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room."
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"We are not self-caused little gods."
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"Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore."
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"I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe."
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"How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything?"
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"Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men."
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"Consciousness is part of our nature as sentient beings, but doesn't mean we are aware at a particular moment. By perceiving our consciousness - becoming conscious of consciousness, we become aware."
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"Jesus and Satan appear here as repre sentatives of two opposite principles. Satan is the representative of material consumption and of power over nature and Man. Jesus is the representative of being, and of the idea that not-having is the premise for being. The world has followed Satan's principles, since the time of the gospels."
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"It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus."
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"You may give them your love but not your thougts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."
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"The world since Adam has been white-and corrupt. The world of tomorrow will be black-and righteous. In the white world there has been nothing but slavery, suffering, death and colonialism. In the black world of tomorrow, there will be true freedom, justice and equality for all. And that day is coming-sooner than you think."
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"Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote."
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