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Philosophy Quotes
"It's always been this way, I wanted to tell him. We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone."
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"Memorizing the Bible is most important. “Thinking God's thoughts” will take the place of worried, anxious concerns."
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"Chance' is just a word expressing ignorance."
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"Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes."
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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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"My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human."
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"Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy."
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"If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward."
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"Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures."
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"If [Jesus] felt that He had to pray, how much more do we need to pray!"
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"What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are."
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"I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself."
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"In some ways, we are traveling in time now. We just happened to be prisoners of the present in the eternal transition from the past to the future."
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"The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death.It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:"This is water.""This is water."It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out."
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"When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite."
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"Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether much that is glorious -- whether all that is profound -- does not spring from disease of thought -- from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however rudderless or compassless, into the vast ocean of the 'light ineffable'."
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"Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest?"
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"Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate."
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"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."
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"Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together almost human in its passions almost spiritual in its tenderness almost Divine in its infinity."
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"Our perception is only but a vivid imagination of our thoughts."
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"Real life is to most men a long second best a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible."
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"The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder."
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"I believe in nonjudgmental love, it is in the fundament of all creation."
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"In each of us there is another whom we do not know.Carl Jungfound in David Eagleman's book: Incognito."
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"All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."
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"I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own."
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"People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy."
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"And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced-too eagerly in my view-that the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessible PAP category. From this, as we shall see, they often make the illogical deduction that the hypothesis of God's existence, and the hypothesis of his non-existence, have exactly equal probability of being right."
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"The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth."
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"The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual."
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"I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another."
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"I died for beauty but was scarceAdjusted in the tomb,When one who died for truth was lainIn an adjoining room.He questioned softly why I failed?"For beauty," I replied."And I for truth, the two are one;We brethren are," he said.And so, as kinsmen met a night,We talked between the rooms,Until the moss had reached our lips,And covered up our names."
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"Love - a grave mental disease."
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"If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated."
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"Despair is a free man-hope isa slave."
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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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"When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state."
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"A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat."
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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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"A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned."
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"I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world."
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"That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed."
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"It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be."
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"I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label."
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