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Philosophy Quotes
"All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain."
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"The present is a transitory existence which is made in order to be abolished: it retrieves itself only by transcending itself toward the permanence of future being; it is only as an instrument, as a means, it is only by it's efficacy with regard to the coming of the future that the present is validly realized: reduced to itself it is nothing , one may dispose of it as he pleases."
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"And you have been forever, and will be forever, and all the worrisome smashings of your foot on innocent cupboard doors it was only the Void pretending to be a man pretending not to know the Void."
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"Fractional Multiplicity' allows for a minute amount of our energy to be present in all places at all times."
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"Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty."
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"Your destiny - by hook or crook, by this way or that, at some corner or nook - will catch up with you."
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"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."
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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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"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."
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"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?"
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"While separation does not mean disengagement from the world, there are certain activities and places that God clearly wants us to avoid not only to protect ourselves from spiritual harm but so that the witness we have will not be tarnished."
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"Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavour to do, he drowns--nicht wahr?. . . No! I tell you! The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up. So if you ask me--how to be?"
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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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"The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful, the best occupations are the least forced."
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"I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity."
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"Man alone measures time.Man alone chimes the hour.And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures.A fear of time running out."
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"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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"Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return."
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"Love - a grave mental disease."
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"Indeed the mind of IlAovatar concerning you is not known to the Valar, and he has not revealed all things that are to come. But this we hold to be true, that your home is not here, neither in the land of Aman nor anywhere within the Circles of the World. And the Doom of Men, that they should depart, was at first a gift of IlAovatar. It became a grief to them only because coming under the shadow of Morgoth it seemed to them that they were surrounded by a great darkness, of which they grew afraid; and some grew wilful and proud and would not yield, until life was reft from them."
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"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."
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"We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit."
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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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"Chance' is just a word expressing ignorance."
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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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"Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding."
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"You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch."
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"We can't go on much longer morally. We can't go on much longer scientifically. The technology that was supposed to save us is ready to destroy us. New weapons are being made all the time, including chemical and biological weapons. Today the only bright spot on the horizon of this world is the promise of the coming again of Christ."
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"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
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"Why shouldn't we have laws forbidding pornography and obscenity? Many heroic leaders have tried, but they have stumbled over even the definition of the word “obscenity.” If we cannot agree on the length of a foot, it is because we have lost our yardstick."
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"As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a cell? Yet it's impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours - perhaps even stronger. Life just wants to be."
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"Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: here again, to go beyond the given, one must be deeply rooted in it. Personal accomplishments are almost impossible in human categories collectively kept in an inferior situation."
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"The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences."
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"You got to die for 'It'. Or you'll remain a religious nutcase. In other words, a dickhead, nitwit."
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"I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe."
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"So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me."
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"The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it."
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"But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites, hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind."
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"If the metaphors in everyday speech are a clue, then all of us associate blankness with virtue rather than with nothingness. Think of the moral connotations of the adjectives: clean, fair, immaculate, lily-white, pure, spotless, unmarred and unsullied."
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"In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare."
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"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of ten thousand things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery."
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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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"My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast."
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"The perspective is more important than the perception."
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"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."
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"This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back."
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"It is a phrase that may well perplex a poor modern, girt about on every side by clocks and chimes...For we are all so busy, and have so many far-off projects to realise, and castles in the fire to turn into solid habitable mansions on a gravel soil, that we can find no time for pleasure trips into the Land of Thought and among the Hills of Vanity."
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"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."
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