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Philosophy Quotes
"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
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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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"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
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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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"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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"I am responsible for my life, my happiness, and my joy. I am responsible for my faults, which will destroy."
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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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"Your thoughts are your wand. Trust what you think and it will happen."
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"Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route."
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"No one is exempt from the touch of tragedy: neither the Christian nor the non-Christian; neither the rich nor the poor; neither the leader or the commoner. Crossing all racial, social, political, and economic barriers, suffering reaches out to unite mankind."
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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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"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
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"It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist."
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"Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them."
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"There are several theories on sex and all of them are lies."
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"I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real."
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"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
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"We can't go on much longer morally. We can't go on much longer scientifically. The technology that was supposed to save us is ready to destroy us. New weapons are being made all the time, including chemical and biological weapons. Today the only bright spot on the horizon of this world is the promise of the coming again of Christ."
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"A flower does not fulfill its destiny until it blooms, and a star does not fulfill its destiny until it shines."
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"Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage. He offered us, not an excursion, but an execution. Our Savior said that we would have to be ready to die to self, sin, and the world."
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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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"My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast."
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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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"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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"Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face."
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"We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit."
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"Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance."
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"What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is."
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"The ground is level at the foot of the cross."
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"God isn't finished with you when you retire! When we know Christ, we never retire from His service."
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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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"You got to die for 'It'. Or you'll remain a religious nutcase. In other words, a dickhead, nitwit."
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"He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings. An old chronicle. To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination... Upright to what? Something nameless in the night, lode or matrix. To which he and the stars were common satellite. Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must."
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"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and so is our character."
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"Philosophy is nothing but discretion."
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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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"Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don't really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends aren't really an ending; some things are never-ending."
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"Prayer by itself is like a diet without protein! Prayer is important to our spiritual growth- but of even greater importance is God's Word, the Bible."
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"I don't know what's wrong with this world, but I do know what's right with it: Love. I have studied enough history to see that no matter how cruel the behavior of tyrants and no matter how dark the moments have been, Love has always prevailed. Always."
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"In the essence of truth lies deceit."
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"I know that many of the things I have said from the Scriptures have offended, and I have sometimes been tempted to tone down the message. But, God helping me, I never will! I would become a false prophet. I would also betray my Lord."
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"We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us."
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"My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end."
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"Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence."
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"I like the bumper sticker that reads, “Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven.” But that does not give us license to live below God's standard."
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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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"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."
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"Fractional Multiplicity' allows for a minute amount of our energy to be present in all places at all times."
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