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Philosophy Quotes
"It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man."
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"Thy silence, then that voices thee."
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"In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
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"The world may argue against a creed, but it cannot argue against changed lives."
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"Jesus was born with the cross darkening His pathway . . . From the cradle to the cross, [Jesus'] purpose was to die."
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"I am not here, I am somewhere else, my body is here but mind is in the sky"
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"The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness."
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"Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God's holy temple, but I don't think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I've known have been those with physical infirmities."
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"Prayer serves a dual purpose, the blessing of man and the glory of God."
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"Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."
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"The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom."
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"Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful."
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"It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be."
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"Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!"
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"When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite."
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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 most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it."
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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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"You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?"
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"I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact."
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"How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do."
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"Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces."
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"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."
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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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"The thought system which dominates our culture is laced with selfish values, and relinquishing those values is a lot easier said than done. The journey to a pure heart can be highly disorienting. For years, we may have worked for power, money or prestige. Now all of a sudden we've learned that these are just the values of a dying world."
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"Better a false belief than no belief at all."
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"Prayer by itself is like a diet without protein! Prayer is important to our spiritual growth- but of even greater importance is God's Word, the Bible."
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"Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers."
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"Memorizing the Bible is most important. “Thinking God's thoughts” will take the place of worried, anxious concerns."
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"Some of the most healing words in any language are, “I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?” How much more we need that confession to our Father in heaven."
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"The ability to rejoice in any situation is a sign of spiritual maturity."
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"Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.There is one who remembers the way to your door:Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.You shall not deny the Stranger.They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.But the man that is shall shadowThe man that pretends to be."
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"Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage. He offered us, not an excursion, but an execution. Our Savior said that we would have to be ready to die to self, sin, and the world."
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"All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten."
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"And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth."
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"Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably."
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"I'm evolving, is the thing; I'm a god becoming a constellation.''The constellations are mostly demigods,' I point out. 'And they didn't get to be constellations until after they died.'He laughs at that, and says, 'Death is a small sacrifice to become immortal."
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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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"That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?"
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"People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching."
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"Philosophy is nothing but discretion."
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"Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return."
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"Try to study yourself and what is inside you, as the entire world lies in you."
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"All providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction."
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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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"The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct?"
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"We are called to obey Christ. He is the Master of our lives and has washed us in His blood, which cleanses our souls, our minds, and our mouths. The world is watching. What do they see and hear?"
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