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"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."
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"Before the seventeenth century, a child passed directly into the adult world between the ages of five and seven . . . then came the industrial revolution . . .so the child-centered home was born."
Billy Graham
"Before the seventeenth century, a child passed directly into the adult world between the ages of five and seven . . . then came the industrial revolution . . .so the child-centered home was born."
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"What is a rebel? A man who says no."
Albert Camus
"What is a rebel? A man who says no."
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"How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything?"
Gustave Flaubert
"How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything?"
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"I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio."
Arne Jacobsen
"I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio."
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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."
Kahlil Gibran
"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!"
Ramana Pemmaraju
"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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"To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof."
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"Those who realize their folly are not true fools."
Zhuang Zi
"Those who realize their folly are not true fools."
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"Being is the great explainer."
Henry David Thoreau
"Being is the great explainer."
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"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space."
Albert Einstein
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space."
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"... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth..."
Marcel Proust
"... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth..."
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"The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it."
Pat Conroy
"The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it."
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"What do you want to do with your life, then? is often the question I'm asked.To be honest, I don't know. I really don't.Mainly because I don't see myself living long enough for that to make much of a difference."
Nenia Campbell
"What do you want to do with your life, then? is often the question I'm asked.To be honest, I don't know. I really don't.Mainly because I don't see myself living long enough for that to make much of a difference."
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"It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path."
Paulo Coelho
"It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path."
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"I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another."
E. M. Forster
"I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another."
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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?"
Kahlil Gibran
"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?"
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"Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face."
T. F. Hodge
"Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face."
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"Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest."
Milan Kundera
"Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest."
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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."
Fakeer Ishavardas
"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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"From nothing comes everything."
Dejan Stojanovic
"From nothing comes everything."
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"[Christians] are called to distinguish themselves as Christ followers, not community organizers."
Billy Graham
"[Christians] are called to distinguish themselves as Christ followers, not community organizers."
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"If your needs are little, you are rich enough."
Fakeer Ishavardas
"If your needs are little, you are rich enough."
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"When humanity dies, what happens to all the people?"
Anthony T. Hincks
"When humanity dies, what happens to all the people?"
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"You can have religion but not know Christ. It's having Christ that counts."
Billy Graham
"You can have religion but not know Christ. It's having Christ that counts."
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"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
Thomas Jefferson
"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
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"I desire the world - therefore I have it."
Jay Woodman
"I desire the world - therefore I have it."
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"Sufism," according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure."
Idries Shah
"Sufism," according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure."
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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."
Pat Conroy
"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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"Without nothing, everything would be nothing."
Dejan Stojanovic
"Without nothing, everything would be nothing."
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"We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us."
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"My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end."
Bill Kurtis
"My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end."
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"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."
Karl Marx
"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."
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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."
Zhuang Zi
"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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"It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems."
Maimonides
"It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems."
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"We grow small trying to be great."
David Hockney
"We grow small trying to be great."
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"We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself."
Goldwin Smith
"We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself."
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"The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom."
Tim Ferriss
"The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom."
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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."
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
"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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"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
Albert Camus
"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
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"I like the bumper sticker that reads, “Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven.” But that does not give us license to live below God's standard."
Billy Graham
"I like the bumper sticker that reads, “Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven.” But that does not give us license to live below God's standard."
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"Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us."
Bodhidharma
"Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us."
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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."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"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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"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!"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"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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"[It] is well and good when our convictions are based upon the “Thou shalts” and the “Thou shalt nots” of Scripture rather than our own ideas."
Billy Graham
"[It] is well and good when our convictions are based upon the “Thou shalts” and the “Thou shalt nots” of Scripture rather than our own ideas."
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"The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence."
Joseph Rotblat
"The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence."
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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."
Alfred North Whitehead
"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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"The inability to rise above one's inherited ism and ideology makes one live and die a fool, just a folly."
Fakeer Ishavardas
"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."
Fakeer Ishavardas
"We're shadows! of naught - living, dying! for what's not."
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"Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest?"
Chris Murray
"Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest?"
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