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Philosophy Quotes
"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."
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"Fractional Multiplicity' allows for a minute amount of our energy to be present in all places at all times."
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"Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty."
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"While separation does not mean disengagement from the world, there are certain activities and places that God clearly wants us to avoid not only to protect ourselves from spiritual harm but so that the witness we have will not be tarnished."
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"There is always time to die, but never time to live."
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"When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow."
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"This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for."
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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
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"He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.'White to play and mate in two moves.'Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates."
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"Even chance meetings are the result of karma. Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence."
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"The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity."
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"Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural."
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"...and when we die we die alone I cry, I cry aloneLike a piece of stone I am thrown into the wavy ocean of lifeto atone...to atoneOnly to atone..."
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"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking..."
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"We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation."
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"Without nothing, everything would be nothing."
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"You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers."
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"The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom."
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"Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us."
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"Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, Hell was his Heaven on Earth"; he could put up with suffering now, by contemplating the eternal punishment of his oppressors in the other world."
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"As soon as he reflected seriously he was convinced of the existence of God and immortality, and at once he instinctively said to himself: "I want to live for immortality, and I will accept no compromise." In the same way, if he had decided that God and immortality did not exist, he would have at once become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth."
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"The Bible teaches that a man who can control his tongue can control his whole personality."
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"The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full."
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"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect."
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"The superfluous is very necessary."
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"The inability to rise above one's inherited ism and ideology makes one live and die a fool, just a folly."
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"We're shadows! of naught - living, dying! for what's not."
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"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."
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"We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals-while we have played up rudeness, savagery, and vice . . . and the philosophy of “might is right."
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"Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows."
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"All is a forever."
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"Circumstance points to deeper meaning."
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"Time is not something to be killed. Doing so suffocates a part of us, writing off part of our life that could, or rather should, be spent doing something meaningful."
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"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."
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"God would never make man in his image,because that would then make him as vain as what man is."
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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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"Reality is just a matter of perception."
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"What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions - they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force."
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"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries."
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"Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."
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"Consciousness and free will are necessary in order for human beings to live meaningful lives by supplying agency to our intentions. The innate capacity for consciousness and directed free will plays a linchpin role in making human curiosity a viable concept. We would lack an ability to learn without an inquisitive mind and the ability to act. A premeditated act of human free will enables us to apply what we learn and make calculated adjustments when our plans need alteration. Human beings' cognitive processes and a liberal range of free will allows us to study the past for learning rubrics to employ in the present and cogitate upon a future course of action."
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"Life turns, and returns death. Where death digs its claws into the grave only to pull out life, as a baby from a womb; and the recycle of air, the recycle of struggles that never achieve satisfaction, in a constant turning world, of an untuned universe."
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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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"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."
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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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"Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked didnt I think it odd that I should be present to witness the death of everything and I do think it's odd but that doesnt mean it's not so. Someone has to be here."
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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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"All men are poets at heart."
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