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Philosophy Quotes
"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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"Reason and Faith are no more antithetical than the mind and the heart, for neither one exists or has meaning without the other."
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"What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle."
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"In our quest for the answers of life we tend to make order out of chaos, and chaos out of order."
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"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
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"There are only two things to worry about in life: either you're free or you're not. If you're free, there's nothing to worry about. If you're not, you kick the shit out of everything around you until you are."
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"I stopped living a long time ago, in order to simply exist. Now I am trying to leave existence, in order to step into nihility."
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"There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too."
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"If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber."
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"Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in tow ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death."
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"Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe."
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"He wasn't a good person, but I painted him to be and since I painted it, I believed it."
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"Nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaningless itself."
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"Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not so much as will make them fly apart, when the harm will be the greater."
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"Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces."
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"The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics."
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"Beliefs converge and become something new all the time."
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"I believe and therefore I am."
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"We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant " for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make it what it is. We are responsible for its health, its functionality, and above all, its purpose. A lone cell can restore the others, or a lone cell can spread a plague."
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"Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world."
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"What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we transmit."
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"They, like me, like all of us, had, once upon a time, in a past so far away it seemed like heaven, caught by chance a glimpse of an inner essence, only to forget what it was. It was this lost memory that pained us, reduced us to ruins, though still we struggled to be ourselves."
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"Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside."
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"You've made a beast of yourself,- to the beasts you may go."
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"When you are born, outside world already exists. When you begin to understand life, all you acquire is the outside world's beliefs, and different experiences and impressions from the outside world. In the process, you forget to know the person, who entered into this earth and the purpose of his birth."
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"It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion."
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"To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom."
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"Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind."
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"Time that had not come yet-an anomaly in itself-had the fiercest reality for her. It was a hard wind in her face; if she had made the world, every tree would be bent, every stone weathered, every bough stripped by that steady and contrary wind. Lucille saw in everything its potential for invidious change."
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"If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality."
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"In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare."
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"i was delighted I had offended her upholstered sensibilities."
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"The illusion, as ego suggests, is that it's about time - mechanical mind; it is not. It is, however, all about conscious space - something [the] soul has always known."
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"People quick to criticize others, but won't shine the light on themselves. You can't always judge a book by the outside appearance. You have to open it up and read in order to discover how precious it is."
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"Some mysteries are meant to stay that way."
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"The truth brings no man a fortune."
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"Man is a dubious mixture of mind and matter; since the mind unlocks recognition of the eternal to him, while matter pulls him down and binds him to the transitory, he should strive away from the senses and toward the mind if he wishes to elevate his life and give it meaning."
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"Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all."
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"You will have a peace of mind when you tell the truth and people think it's a lie, than we you tell a lie hoping that people will think it's the truth; because no matter how long it takes, either will be revealed."
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"How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight."
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"The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place."
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"There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!"
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"Does it matter whether it was a dream or a reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?"
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"I've never paid any attention to time. Dancer says I've enjoyed a luxury most people never have. He hates clocks and watches and everything that has to do with time. He says people already have too many lost days and that most folks live in the past or the future but never the present, always saying stuff like 'I'm unhappy because 'X' happened to me yesterday, or I'll be happy again when 'Y' happens to me tomorrow. He says time is the ultimate villain."
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"The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away."
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"Maybe what you need in your life is not the next level of accomplishment or the next level of accumulation but the next level of appreciation for what you have; that will set the stage to make a space for what you will accumulate in the future. ( a bit deep) Simply put thank God for now before setting the goal for tomorrow because if you grow in gifts and didn't grow in gratitude, you have gained nothing."
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"Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brought with them.Human: You don't believe in God?Hive Queen: The question never came up. We have always remembered how we began.Human: You evolved. We were created.Hive Queen: By a virus.Human: By a virus that God created in order to create us.Hive Queen: So you, too, are a believer.Human: I understand belief.Hive Queen: No-you desire belief.Human: I desire it enough to act as if I believed. Maybe that's what faith is.Hive Queen: Or deliberate insanity."
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"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination."
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"I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it."
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