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Philosophy Quotes
"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth."
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"Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness."
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"No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do. All of us are the children of conditions, of circumstances, of environment, of education, of acquired habits and of heredity; moulding men as they are and will for ever be."
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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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"Prayer serves a dual purpose, the blessing of man and the glory of God."
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"Some of the strongest warnings about judgment in the Bible come from the lips of Jesus."
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"The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic."
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"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."
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"Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there."
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"Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious."
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"Light and flow is what shifts the world's vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition."
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"Don't waste your life trying to fill up a hollow or a hollow be filled up because it not only makes your life shallow but your conscious hollow."
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"The silence, she thought, was remarkable: a perfect, shimmering thing, and fragile. Like glass, if it shattered, it would never come back together again."
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"The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace."
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"In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair."
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"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy."
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"The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the heart of most men lives still in the Stone Age. The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective. They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man himself."
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"Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably."
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"Our reality is colored by our vibration and belief systems. In other words, the experiences we have in the world with other people are dictated by the energy we bring with us wherever we go."
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"The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself, it gives life to others as it transforms."
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"Philosophy is one reason which could lead to death."
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"I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as a plant and rose to animal,I died as an animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"
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"But it is obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it is precisely life that makes this encounter possible and since, without life, the absurdist wager would have no basis. To say that life is absurd, the conscience must be alive."
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"When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom."
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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
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"Thy silence, then that voices thee."
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"When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair."
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"The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's?"
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"Only those of us live for centuries that decided not to live in their short lives."
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"From nothing comes everything."
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"Lice consume grass, rust consumes iron, and lying the soul!"
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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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"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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"What once were vices are now manners."
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"The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane."
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"No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!"
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"Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension."
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"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."
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"Happy is the man who is nothing."
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"We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present."
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"It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe."
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"The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence."
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"The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist."
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"If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith and of fortitude, it is predictable that they will not be able to resist the temptation of the big bang by nuclear weapons, which would end all problems - overpopulation, boredom, and hunger - since it would do away with all life."
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"Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations."
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