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Quotes by Philosopher
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
90
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
87
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
80
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
79
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
79
"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."
76
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
75
"Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions."
67
"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."
65
"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
65
"Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground."
64
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
60
"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity."
60
"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
59
"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."
58
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."
56
"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."
56
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
55
"Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable."
54
"A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour."
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54
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."
52
"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."
52
"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment."
50
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
50
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
50
"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."
49
"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."
49
"The sky belongs to eagles, even during storms."
48
"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."
48
"Everything is pathology, except for indifference."
46
"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."
46
"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
44
"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived."
44
"Be the sun in someone's dark sky."
43
"Don't water anything that you don't want to grow in your life."
43
"Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness."
42
"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'."
42
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