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Philosophy Quotes
"Man made God in his own image."
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"God's will is for us to commit our lives to Christ and follow Him. God's will also is that we avoid sin."
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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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"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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"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
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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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"My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human."
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"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."
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"We do not have a paradise on earth, it is riddled with so much sin and disease."
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"When Jesus hung on the cross, a great unseen cosmic battle raged in the heavens-and in the end, Christ triumphed over all the forces of evil and death and hell."
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"Cursing, telling smutty stories, smearing the good name of another, and referring irreverently to God and the Scriptures may be considered as coming under the expression corrupt speech. Our speech is to be clean, pure, and wholesome."
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"The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ."
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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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"Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought."
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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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"He is not apprehended by reason, but by life."
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"Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity."
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"Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces."
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"If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness."
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"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
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"People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching."
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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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"I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body."
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"Your perception about the world creates your thoughts, your thoughts create your desires and intention, and your intentions manifest as your reality."
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"It's amazing how we can hurt others, especially those close to us . . .subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which wives belittle husbands and vice versa."
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"Why shouldn't we have laws forbidding pornography and obscenity? Many heroic leaders have tried, but they have stumbled over even the definition of the word “obscenity.” If we cannot agree on the length of a foot, it is because we have lost our yardstick."
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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."
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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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"How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?"
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"Life itself is simple...it's just not easy."
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"I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity."
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"No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes."
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"Right time, right place, right moment."
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"My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things."
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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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"Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness."
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"Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought."
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"Long before man traveled into space, rabbis debated how one would observe Shabbat there-not because they anticipated space travel but because Buddhists strive to live with questions and Jews would rather die."
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"Without the Bible, this world would indeed be a dark and frightening place, without signpost or beacon."
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"Your destiny - by hook or crook, by this way or that, at some corner or nook - will catch up with you."
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"All is a forever."
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"While separation does not mean disengagement from the world, there are certain activities and places that God clearly wants us to avoid not only to protect ourselves from spiritual harm but so that the witness we have will not be tarnished."
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"I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good."
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"He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.'White to play and mate in two moves.'Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates."
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"Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return."
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"Remember that “where God guides, He provides. Where He leads, He supplies all needs."
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"What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle--I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope which I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition?"
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