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Philosophy Quotes
"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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"If your needs are little, you are rich enough."
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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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"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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"All men are poets at heart."
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"Prayer serves a dual purpose, the blessing of man and the glory of God."
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"I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists."
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"What good is power when you're too wise to use it?"
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"I wish nights like this weren't so fragile and slippery and impossible to nail down for study in one's leisure. But the really great nights pass through you like whispers or shadows. They shimmer, but don't adhere."
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"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law."
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"God doesn't comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters."
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"Convictions are prisons."
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"In greatness, life and death merge."
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"Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day."
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"Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding."
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"A Constitution should be short and obscure."
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"Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something."
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"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."
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"Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension."
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"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."
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"Cats don't have names, it said."No? said Coraline."No, said the cat. "Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.There was something irritatingly self-centered about the cat, Coraline decided. As if it were, in its opinion, the only thing in any world or place that could possibly be of any importance.Half of her wanted to be very rude to it; the other half of her wanted to be polite and deferential. The polite half won."
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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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"The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable."
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"When we approach the Bible as history and biography, we approach the Bible in the wrong spirit. We must read the Bible, not primarily as historians seeking information, but as men and women seeking God."
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"The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance."
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"Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."
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"There is no right or wrong, only our thoughts and perceptions make it so."
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"God and God's Word are inseparable."
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"One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare."
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"We attract what is happening in our lives."
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"Like a snake sheds its skin, we are capable of getting rid of assembled habits, creating space to call matters into question. Instead of the Shakespearian " To be or not to be " we could favor " to become or not to become". By "becoming", we challenge the range of possibilities in our life and go beyond the merely "being". We can retreat, then, from the imprisonment of a deadly routine, acquire an identity and develop our personality. ['Man without Qualities']"
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"Time ... is the life of the soul."
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"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."
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"Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."
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"Perfection exists no where, because we all live in fragments - mental, psychological, physical, spiritual. Being total is an art which takes many lives to master!"
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"A number is still very accurate, but its role is changed.In the changed role this number enriches the silence."
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"i was delighted I had offended her upholstered sensibilities."
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"Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right."
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"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."
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"I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as a plant and rose to animal,I died as an animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"
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"Truth in, untruth out. Seek thus, within-without."
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"Possible impossibility emerges From an impossible possibility, Or possibly, impossible possibility Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility."
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"Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?..."
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"Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?"
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"Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces."
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"In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism."
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"Bearing our cross does not mean wearing gunny sacks and long faces. Some people . . . wear the look of a martyr every time they hear criticism. Sometimes we deserve the criticism we receive; however, we are blessed only when men speak evil against us falsely for Christ's sake."
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