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Philosophy Quotes
"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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"It is a sound like loneliness-enough to let you know you're there, but not enough to fill you with life."
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"How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight."
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"The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it."
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"The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place."
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"Some things never change. Not the ABC's, not the multiplication tables, not God!"
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"Time' is the illusional domain occupied by the state of boredom. 'Space' is the infinite - reality - experienced by the state of higher creative consciousness. Choose wisely."
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"There is no God and we are his prophets."
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"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
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"Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not-there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, terrible courage. I had that courage."
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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?"
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"Despair is a free man-hope isa slave."
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"Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers."
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"Every person is an island in the sea of humanity."
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"Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life. In this life there are many forms of hell that people walk through, sometimes for a day, sometimes for years, sometimes it doesn't end. The kind of hell that doesn't burn your skin; but burns your soul. The kind of hell that people can't see; but the flames lap at your spirit. Heaven is a place on earth, too! It's where you feel freedom, where you're not afraid. No more chains. And you hear your soul laughing."
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"The world may argue against a creed, but it cannot argue against changed lives."
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"I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death."
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"When humanity dies, what happens to all the people?"
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"Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory."
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"When you get down to it, though, explaining what you believe isn't all that easy. If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things-that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact. I don't logically see how one single word can have contradictory definitions, but emotionally, I completely understand. Because there are times I think what I am doing is right, and there are other times I second-guess myself every step of the way."
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"The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud."
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"In earlier periods of history, adolescence was virtually unknown . . . Today, the span between childhood and adulthood may extend over ten years. Deferred adulthood is synonymous with deferred responsibility."
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"Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present and the past as well . What was right, and what was wrong? Just learning how to dress was a riddle."
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"One is free, and at the mercy of everything."
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"Man has naturally and universally a capacity for religion-and not only a capacity, for the vast majority of the human race practices or professes some form of religion."
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"And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd."
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"We had made the error of staying small and there is no more unforgivable crime in America."
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"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."
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"If you are ignorant of God's Word, you will always be ignorant of God's will."
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"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions, they cease to be mind."
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"I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men."
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"I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study."
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"The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'"
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"My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!"
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"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."
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"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."
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"All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe."
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"The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened."
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"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
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"Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment."
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"But is all this true?" said Brutha.Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork."You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha."I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about."
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"The world by its advertisements, its conversation, and its philosophy is engaged in a gigantic brainwashing task . . . The Christian is beset by secular and worldly propaganda."
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"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's."
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"The world is heading for another major crisis that is being called, even by the secular world, “Armageddon."
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"Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same."
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"I can't express the truth about reality. I can only express my feelings."
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"I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ."
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"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
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