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Philosophy Quotes
"I am not here, I am somewhere else, my body is here but mind is in the skyflying with the clouds, spreading her wings of imagination to find the rainbow of happiness and joy."
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"I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ's church and take the Gospel everywhere."
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"I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy."
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"All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong, he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm."
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"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away."
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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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"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."
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"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
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"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."
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"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd."
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"I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe."
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"To be thoroughly conversant with Man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair."
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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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"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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"I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end."
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"And so the Universe ended."
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"Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand."
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"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions."
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"The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I'm not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they're called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation."
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"I have patience in all things " as far as the antechamber."
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"What the psychological analysis of doctrines can show is the subjective motivations which make a person aware of certain problems and make him seek answers in certain directions. Any kind of though, true or false, is motivated by the subjective needs and interests of the person who is thinking. It happens that some interests are furthered by finding the truth, others by destroying it."
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"No, it's human, Curran said. That's the problem. People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders. Doing as your told."
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"The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth."
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"The tragedy of unfulfilling life is that you're already dead but no one pronounced you dead..."
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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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"Our second danger is to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile to all change; to aim to return to some previous condition which we imagine as having been capable of preservation in perpetuity, instead of aiming to stimulate the life which produced that condition in its time. . . . a tradition without intelligence is not worth having . . ."
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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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"I think of you, therefore I exist."
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"And what do I think about? What thoughts do I have! - What thoughts! a whole host, multitude, and world of thoughts, I keep devising new ones and reworking old ones, some of the old ones are concluded and are only thought of as conclusions, whole worlds of new ones come crashing into my fingers, and it never ends."
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"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
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"The subject of heaven is much easier to accept than the subject of hell. And yet the Bible teaches both."
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"If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness."
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"According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings."
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"Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result."
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"All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so."
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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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"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
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"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
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"I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners."
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"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy."
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"Without emotion, what's the point of being human?"
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"The thing that attracted me about philosophy was that it went straight to essentials. I had never liked fiddling detail; I perceived the general significance of things rather than their singularities, and I preferred understanding to seeing; I had always wanted to know everything; philosophy would allow me to appease this desire, for it aimed at total reality;philosophy went right to the heart of truth and revealed to me, instead of an illusory whirlwind of facts or empirical laws, an order, a reason, a necessity in everything."
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"People are like the waves, all similar, none the same."
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"Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty."
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"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."
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"I clearly saw the skeleton underneathall this show of personalitywhat is left of a manand all his pride but bones?"
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"When Jesus hung on the cross, a great unseen cosmic battle raged in the heavens-and in the end, Christ triumphed over all the forces of evil and death and hell."
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