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Philosophy Quotes
"My happiness with the future and the present depends on my ability to let the past go and make peace with it."
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"It's shameful for a devil to be good."
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"If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man?To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs. Instead, to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God " saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust. And if the others don't acknowledge it " this life lived in simplicity, humility, cheerfulness " he doesn't resent them for it, and isn't deterred from following the road where it leads: to the end of life. An end to be approached in purity, in serenity, in acceptance, in peaceful unity with what must be."
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"Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice."
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"Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms."
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"When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said."
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"What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons."
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"At the very best there are two major problems with ideology. The first is that it does not represent or conform to or even address reality. It is a straight-edge ruler in a fractal universe. And the second is that it inspires in its believers the notion that the fault here lies with miscreant fact, which should therefore be conformed to the requirements of theory by all means necessary."
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"Emotions is evil. People who make me feel are worse. I take comfort in the stone inside of me. If I don't feel, I don't hurt."
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"At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change."
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"Our true reality is not a limited phenomenon, existing only between birth and death. It is eternal life that exists alone, self-existent and self-sufficient, the essence of all that is, was, and ever will be throughout the universe. That is what you really are."
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"Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it."
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"Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages."
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"Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly."
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"Maslow's five values are the values for which people live when they have nothing to live for. Nothing has seized them, nothing has caught them, nothing has driven them spiritually mad and made them worth talking to."
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"He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die."
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"Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death?"
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"Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways cannot be known, oh man." Which is to say, "My ways do not make sense, nor do the ways of those who dwell in me."
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"You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom."
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"Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity."
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"Our great modern error is the belief that we must invariably give up one thing in order to have another. But it is possible, for instance, to find comfort, pleasure, and beauty in food, clothing, and shelter. It is possible to find pleasure and beauty and even "recreation" in work. It is possible to have farms that do not waste and poison the natural world."
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"Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?"
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"A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.A foolish sage is one who forgets this.Remember, or come full circle."
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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?"
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"It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us."
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"What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find."
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"In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again."
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"Every person is an island in the sea of humanity."
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"Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic."
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"On a surface level, all one finds is repeated forms of shallow whispers. Having the courage to explore deeply, a wealth of buried infinite lifetimes emerge - an undeniable force."
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"Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth."
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"In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere."
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"To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it."
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"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions, they cease to be mind."
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"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck."
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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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"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."
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"The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss."
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"I am someone who represents a very complex country which insists on being simple-minded. And simplicity, it occurs to me, it has occurred to me more than once, in my somewhat stormy life, simplicity is taken to be a great American virtue, along with sincerity. And the result of this is, if you are simple-minded enough, you can become-I didn't want to go that far laughs. And as long as you're sincere in what you say, you haven't got to know what you're talking about. These are the American virtues-two of them anyway. One of the results of this is that immaturity is taken to be a virtue too."
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"They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch."
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"How can I know what I think till I see what I say?"
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"The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times. Suffering in and of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it."
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"Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree."
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"If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?"
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"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."
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"A conclusion is the place you get to when you're tired of thinking."
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"The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that."
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"The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?"
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"If there is no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know."
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"HungerYou are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable and unthinkable."
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