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Philosophy Quotes
"In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world."
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"Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future."
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"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."
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"The Bhagavad Gita-that ancient Indian Yogic text-says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly."
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"Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous."
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"Urge and urge and urge,Always the procreant urge of the world."
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"But an action which wants to serve man ought to be careful not to forget him on the way, if it chooses to fulfill itself blindly, it will lose its meaning or will take on an unforeseen meaning; for the goal is not fixed once & for all; it is defined all along the road which leads up to it."
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"Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces."
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"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."
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"The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious."
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"What is freedom as a human experience? Is the desire for freedom something inherent in human nature? Is it an identical experience regardless of what kind of culture a person lives in, or is it something different according to the degree of individualism reached in a particular society? Is freedom only the absence of external pressure or is it also the presence of something-and if so, of what? What are the social and economic factors in society that make for the striving for freedom? Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from? Why then is it that freedom is for many a cherished goal and for others a threat?"
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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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"Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire."
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"Cursing, telling smutty stories, smearing the good name of another, and referring irreverently to God and the Scriptures may be considered as coming under the expression corrupt speech. Our speech is to be clean, pure, and wholesome."
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"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth."
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"Beauty is unbearable drives us to despair offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
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"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."
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"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."
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"The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it."
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"The cause of all trouble, the root of all sorrow, the dread of every man lies in this one small word-sin. It has crippled the nature of man . . .It has caused man to be caught in the devil's trap."
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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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"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."
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"No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes."
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"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large I contain multitudes)."
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"You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm."
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"The universe is continuously creating, maintaining and destroying to create, maintain and destroy!!!! Be with the flow, know what you have to continuously create, maintain and then destroy!!!!"
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"He is not apprehended by reason, but by life."
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"Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers."
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"You can have religion but not know Christ. It's having Christ that counts."
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"I desire the world - therefore I have it."
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"How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?"
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"Your thoughts are your wand. Trust what you think and it will happen."
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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 society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands."
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"All is a forever."
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"The general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied."
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"This just makes me know and understand that there is no one reality that suits all, just one that suits each of us."
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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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"Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?"
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"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries."
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"Remember that “where God guides, He provides. Where He leads, He supplies all needs."
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"What is it: is man only a blunder of God or God only a blunder of man?"
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"We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone."
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"Pride consists not in wanting to be rich, but in wanting to be richer than your neighbor. It is not in wanting to be noticed but in wanting to be the most noticed. It is not in wanting to have things but in wanting more things than others."
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"If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness."
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"So resolute is the world to despise anything which carries with it an air of simplicity."
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"The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom."
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"One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole " there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole, But nothing exists apart from the whole!"
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