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Philosophy Quotes
"Remember that “where God guides, He provides. Where He leads, He supplies all needs."
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"Doubt: How can I know? Truth: How can you not?"
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"There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message-- describing a situation, a scene. We Tralfamadorians read them all at once, not one after the other. There isn't any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time."
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"When you fill a void, isn't the void still there?"
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"The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second, immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor."
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"The day of democracy is past," he said. "Past for ever. That day began with the bowmen of Crecy, it ended when marching infantry, when common men in masses ceased to win the battles of the world, when costly cannon, great ironclads, and strategic railways became the means of power. To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before-it commands earth and sea and sky. All power is for those who can handle wealth...."
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"If I love order, it's not the mark of a character subjected to an inner discipline, a repression of the instincts. In me the idea of an absolutely regular world, symmetrical and methodical, is associated with that first impulse and burgeoning of nature.The rest of your images that associate passion with disorder, love with intemperate overflow - river fire whirlpool volcano - are for me memories of nothingness and listlessness and boredom."
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"Unborn, never died, ever alive - thus is the Ultimate Reality. Of God. And of the Universal Self. As too, your own."
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"Sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted, where there is no place for him; for if not, why should he want all the place? Why should he run about here and there making a great noise about himself, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass?"
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"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."
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"Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?"
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"Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?"
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"To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous."
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"That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us. Hold property and external riches with fear; they often leave their possessor scorned and mocked at for having lost them."
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"Sometimes you may have nothing yet without hope you've got less."
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"If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic."
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"Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it."
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"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
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"You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle."
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"Your thoughts are your wand. Trust what you think and it will happen."
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"Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism."
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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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"All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sense of its difficulties, are aware that the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking part of the truth for the whole. It might be plausibly maintained that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied; and that if either could have been made to take the other's views in addition to its own, little more would have been needed to make its doctrine correct."
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"The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership."
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"Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?"
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"If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger."
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"Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another."
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"In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise."
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"For Death's life to be extinguished... now that was something to truly dread."
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"The past is no further away than the last breath you took."
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"If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?"
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"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
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"When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings."
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"Did he who made the lamb make thee?"
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"In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account."
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"This is the tragedy of knowing my fate: I have seen how it ends, and I will walk right into it, and nothing will change."
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"A superior brain without the saving essence of godliness may turn against the human race and drench the world in blood, or worse, it may loose ideas into the earth which will continue to curse mankind for centuries after it has turned to dust again."
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"But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body."
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"They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree."
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"I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human."
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"If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me."
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"The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day."
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"I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself."
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"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect."
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"The worst cynicism a belief in luck."
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"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light."
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"Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right!"
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"Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded laws of God.They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.I knew I must die, even without your decree:I am only mortal. And if I must dieNow, before it is my time to die,Surely this is no hardship: can anyoneLiving, as I live, with evil all about me,Think Death less than a friend?"
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"The best way to understand life is to understand one's own perspective towards life and rise above it. You have the higher intelligence in you, that allows you to perceive life, beyond an individuals perspective."
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"Philosophers have often held disputeAs to the seat of thought in man and bruteFor that the power of thought attends the latterMy friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter,And spite of dogmas current in all ages,One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)"
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