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Philosophy Quotes
"All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things."
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"I am not here, I am somewhere else, my body is here but mind is in the skyflying with the clouds, spreading her wings of imagination to find the rainbow of happiness and joy."
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"I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ's church and take the Gospel everywhere."
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"Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present and the past as well . What was right, and what was wrong? Just learning how to dress was a riddle."
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"Pride consists not in wanting to be rich, but in wanting to be richer than your neighbor. It is not in wanting to be noticed but in wanting to be the most noticed. It is not in wanting to have things but in wanting more things than others."
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"What good is power when you're too wise to use it?"
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"One is free, and at the mercy of everything."
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"Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give."
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"According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings."
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"To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it."
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"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."
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"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions, they cease to be mind."
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"In greatness, life and death merge."
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"I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy."
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"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
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"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."
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"All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night."
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"Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there."
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"Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something."
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"Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension."
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"We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions."
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"In normal everyday usage, "I" embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space an time, but also into human nature, referred to as "an optical illusion of consciousness."
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"The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?"
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"When we approach the Bible as history and biography, we approach the Bible in the wrong spirit. We must read the Bible, not primarily as historians seeking information, but as men and women seeking God."
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"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common."
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"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
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"It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends."
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"I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!"
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"In thousands of churches [people] are led astray theologically. Thus spiritually and morally they are drifting aimlessly, without compass or guide."
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"It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them."
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"Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins."
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"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."
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"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
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"There is no right or wrong, only our thoughts and perceptions make it so."
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"When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart."
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"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."
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"What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection."
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"When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A religion was not a race. It was an idea, and ideas stood (or fell) because they were strong enough (or too weak) to withstand criticism, not because they were shielded from it. Strong ideas welcomed dissent."
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"The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask."
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"Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;While we are speaking the word, it is is already the Past."
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"The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean."
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"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."
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"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."
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"Thou shalt not search with desire; because the real treasures, they, will remain forever hidden from you."
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"Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time."
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"My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat."
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