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Philosophy Quotes
"In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world."
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"Men have become the tools of their tools."
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"We must face honestly the toll that anger and bitterness take on our lives. They are our enemies! The Bible says, “An angry person stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered one commits many sins."
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"Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do."
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"Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, Hell was his Heaven on Earth"; he could put up with suffering now, by contemplating the eternal punishment of his oppressors in the other world."
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"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."
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"Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen."
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"The human spirit must prevail over technology."
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"Satan does not care how much you theorize about Christianity or how much you profess to know Christ. What he opposes vigorously is the way you live Christ."
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"But an action which wants to serve man ought to be careful not to forget him on the way, if it chooses to fulfill itself blindly, it will lose its meaning or will take on an unforeseen meaning; for the goal is not fixed once & for all; it is defined all along the road which leads up to it."
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"Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light."
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"To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
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"One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare."
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"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."
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"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
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"What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe."
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"They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling. But it's true...I am, in the sense they mean-only have they ever told you in just what sense they mean it?""What did they mean about you?""Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that .'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality."
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"In earlier periods of history, adolescence was virtually unknown . . . Today, the span between childhood and adulthood may extend over ten years. Deferred adulthood is synonymous with deferred responsibility."
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"If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment ... all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning."
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"The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy."
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"I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
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"There are truths that are not for all men nor for all times."
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"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."
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"Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness."
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"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking..."
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"Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed."
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"We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs."
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"As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all."
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"This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for."
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"Beauty is unbearable drives us to despair offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
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"I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn't accept?"
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"Man made God in his own image."
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"Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good."
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"(About Sartre...)His death does not separate us. My death will not bring us together again. That is how things are. It is in itself splendid that we were able to live our lives in harmony for so long."
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"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
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"Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought."
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"The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that."
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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."
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"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."
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"Grief turns us inward, but compassion turns us outward, and that's what we need when grief threatens to crush us. The Bible says, “Carry each other's burdens” [Galatians 6:2 NIV]."
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"It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise."
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"Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous."
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"Urge and urge and urge,Always the procreant urge of the world."
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"You can have religion but not know Christ. It's having Christ that counts."
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"Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future."
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"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."
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"Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death."
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"Opposities are married."
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"But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites, hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind."
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"Right time, right place, right moment."
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