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Philosophy Quotes
"The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full."
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"My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat."
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"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect."
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"Without emotion, what's the point of being human?"
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"There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more."
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"To be thoroughly conversant with Man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair."
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"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."
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"That's rather a broad idea," I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature," he answered."
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"Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet."
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"All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. As I said, pure biology."
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"Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows."
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"Energy defines life not flesh and blood. WE are infinite energies experiencing infinity. Through a finite aperture."
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"Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream."
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"A number is still very accurate, but its role is changed.In the changed role this number enriches the silence."
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"What is the purpose of wealth if it cannot serve an ideal that enhances humanity and betters the lives of the people, even if that means those we have never met before in our lives?"
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"When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him."
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"As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?"
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"Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right."
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"About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy."
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"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."
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"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions."
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"We deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of both is not to be."
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"So you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long. For suppose you should think that a man had had a long voyage who had been caught in a raging storm as he left harbour, and carried hither and thither and driven round and round in a circle by the rage opposing winds. He did not have a long voyage, just a long tossing about."
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"In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on."
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"Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else."
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"It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience."
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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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"It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.""And memory.""Yes, memory. Without that, time would be unarmed against us."
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"When religion ceases to be speculative and becomes factual and "true", it will become science. Science can be used to prove or disprove opinions, beliefs and accusations. Until any religion crosses that line, who is anyone to use their religion to judge others?"
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"The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche."
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"What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions - they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force."
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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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"Surrender to fate and you will never be fully contented."
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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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"Consciousness has power to create physical changes and requires no other medium than itself. It can reach the entire universe, inferring that consciousness energy is the very nature of the universe."
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"Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face."
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"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
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"Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there."
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"Bush invited his constituency to be blind to the world's real problems, and leftists often do the opposite, gazing so fixedly at those problems that they cannot see beyond them. Thus it is that the world often seems divided between false hope and gratuitous despair. Despair demands less of us, it's more predictable, and in a sad way safer. Authentic hope requires clarity--seeing the troubles in this world--and imagination, seeing what might lie beyond these situations that are perhaps not inevitable and immutable."
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"Those who have become vitarag (free from all worldly attachments), will have no intent of ownership (maliki bhav)."
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"One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it."
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"Do not have so much fear of this world that it will ruin the next incarnation."
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"...and when we die we die alone I cry, I cry aloneLike a piece of stone I am thrown into the wavy ocean of lifeto atone...to atoneOnly to atone..."
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"The universe was full of wonders. Some of them would drive you insane if you thought about them too long."
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"...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he."
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"According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings."
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"Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other."
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"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck."
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"My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end."
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