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Philosophy Quotes
"Meditate, Ananda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you."
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"I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as the currents of the winds change - leaves too much room for one's own cultural bias. Instead, introverts tend to turn inward, the laboratory of being and all its forms. This is the most accurate study of the individual human being, which is in turn, rather than those affected by cultural limitations, the most universal reflection of human understanding and human behavior."
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"We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself."
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"If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction."
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"Life is a purposeful action."
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"It's the simplest things in your life that help you achieve the greatest BLESSINGS. None of those things cost you, yet they can bring abundant reward. Faith, honesty and good manners will take you places and assist you in obtaining things that money NEVER will."
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"It's like losing gravity and falling into space " the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars."
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"What you truly own, is what you have inside you. Everything else can be destroyed, robbed or wasted."
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"We are our memory,we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,that pile of broken mirrors."
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"Christianity has its roots in the deep, firm soil of history. Jesus' incarnation-God invading human history with His presence in the form of man-is on the record. Every time you write the date, you attest to the fact that God entered human history."
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"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second."
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"The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark."
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"We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us."
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"It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them."
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"In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes and Kant: the relationship between the idea of infinity as absolute space and absolute time, and our empirical knowledge of space and time."
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"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?Doesn't that make life a story?"
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"Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!"
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"If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something."
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"I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out."
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"Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;While we are speaking the word, it is is already the Past."
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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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"The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance."
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"You can only carry the illusive personality in your mind until you realize the truth behind it, but the time you realize the truth, you just cannot hold the illusive self of yours, in the mind."
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"In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."
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"I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy."
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"Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers."
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"You got to die for 'It'. Or you'll remain a religious nutcase. In other words, a dickhead, nitwit."
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"He who let's the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation."
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"Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship."
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"The truth is not what I look for. It is what I look at!"
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"In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride-or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation-takes over our personalities and shuts us off from those around us. We become dull to others when all we seek to do is assert how well things are going for us, just as friendship has a chance to grow only when we fare to share what we are afraid of and regret. The rest is merely showmanship. The flaws whose exposure we so dread, the indiscretions we know we would be mocked for, the secrets that keep our conversations with our so-called friends superficial and inert-all of these emerge as simply part of the human condition."
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"Who knows if you're alive anymore, but better yet, who knows if I'm even alive anymore?"
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"The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen...."
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"The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods."
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"We, the human race, are so accustomed to having instead of being. What wastage of the revelations and magic in every moment."
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"As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it."
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"Action disconcerts us, partly because of our physical incompetence, but mainly because it offends our moral sensibility. We consider it immoral to act. It seems to us that every thought is debased when expressed in words, which transform the thought into the property of others, making it understandable to anyone who can understand it."
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"If you're a true student of the truth, you may easily get frustrated when people try to make points based on mysticism and cultural beliefs."
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"We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing."
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"It is almost as if we are all playing a big game of hide-and-go-seek. We all hide expecting to be found, but no one has been labelled the seeker. We stand behind the wall, at first excited, then worried, then bored, then anxious, then angry. We hide and hide. After a while, the game is not fun anymore. Where is my seeker? Where is the person who is supposed to come find me here in my protected shell and cut me open? Where is that one who will make me trust him, make me comfortable, make me feel whole? Some people rot on the spot, waiting for the seeker that never comes. The most important truth that I can relate to you, if you are hiding and waiting, is that the seeker is you and the world, behind so many walls, awaits."
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"To transcend nature, to be alienated from nature and from another human being, finds man naked, ashamed. He is alone and free, yet powerless and afraid."
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"Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach."
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"Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own."
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"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it."
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"There is no rule that is true under all circumstances, for this is the real and not a statistical world. Because the statistical method shows only the average aspects, it creates an artificial and predominantly conceptual picture of reality."
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"So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him."
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"My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast."
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"Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep."
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