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Philosophy Quotes
"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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"Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule."
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"I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils."
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"Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Temple, so that we inhaled that which was meant to stand through eternity."
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"But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years."
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"Why are we here?where do we come from?traditionally,these are questionsfor philosophy,but philosophy is dead."
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"Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion."
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"Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed."
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"In the void, there is no distinction of east and west."Gwen blinked slightly at that. "I know all of those words, and yet when strung together like that I have no idea what they mean."
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"There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain."
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"The natural laws of life is not an idea but the truth that holds life on existence. Once you realize the truth within, all your problems and queries of life, cease to exist."
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"Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view."
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"Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference, we should each be treated with appropriate respect."
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"Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day."
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"All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know."
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"Gonzaga was the kind of place you'd not even think about loving until you'd left it for a couple of years."
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"Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth!"
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"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."
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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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"Mr. Asher, you can resist who you are for only so long. Finally, you just decide to go with fate."
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"When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed."
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"I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve."
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"Peace": the fruit of justice done especially to the Self."
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"In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on."
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"I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me."
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"... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth..."
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"When religion ceases to be speculative and becomes factual and "true", it will become science. Science can be used to prove or disprove opinions, beliefs and accusations. Until any religion crosses that line, who is anyone to use their religion to judge others?"
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"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."
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"What gives meaning to your life is rooted in your definition of the author of life."
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"Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive."
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"In which case, why not cancer of the brain? As a terrified, half-aware imbecile, I might even scream for a priest at the close of business, though I hereby state while I am still lucid that the entity thus humiliating itself would not in fact be "me. (Bear this in mind, in case of any later rumors or fabrications.)"
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"But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream."
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"There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear...' he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, 'Revenge."
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"Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail."
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"I believe that secularism is not the enemy of spirituality. Our spirits are in fact secular and free. But the enemy of your spirit is materialism which produces legalism. People scramble for the "perfect law" in order fix everything, while failing to see that law only points towards what is material. And so, people find themselves going around in a circle that will never end. The key is to break away from that circle. You have to begin focusing your attention onto what is inside you and what is inside everybody else. This will in turn produce common sense, intuition, and understanding. Then comes strength."
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"Bring the mind and the phenomena will follow."
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"Words, and faith, will only take you as far as your actions allow."
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"But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question."
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"PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING, because it needs nothing. Production comes out of desire, production comes because you are imperfect. You create something as a substitute because you feel unfulfilled. When you are absolutely fulfilled, why should you create, how can you create? Then you yourself have become the glory of creation, then the inner being itself is so perfect, nothing is needed.PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING. If the world is virtuous, all utilitarian goals will be lost. If the world is really virtuous there will be play and no production. Then the whole thing will just become a game. You enjoy it, but you don't need it. A perfect sage is absolutely useless."
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"Reason obeys itself, and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
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"You cannot rise beyond the external as well as internal reality unless you understand your own perception."
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"To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two completely different points of view on life."
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"Death is a continuation of my life without me..."
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"Any good world would allow for us to have free will, yes?" he continued. "Can we agree to this point? But once human beings have free will, they also have the ability to make choices - and commit evil. Thus, this very good thing, free will, allows the possibility of evil into our fine world."
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"She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself."
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"A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one."
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"You always have a choice to know your life and live with the understanding or simply give up, to the daily pressure of life."
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