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Quotes by Philosopher
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
356
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
294
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
291
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
278
"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
277
"Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself."
270
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
264
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."
247
"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."
241
"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."
237
"The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression."
233
"Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions."
228
"Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground."
226
"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
225
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
223
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
223
"The sky belongs to eagles, even during storms."
221
"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."
221
"Joy is a loyal companion, love is a faithful friend, fear is a terrible adversary, and hatred is a merciless enemy."
219
"I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite."
214
"Courage treats the weak better than fear treats the strong."
212
"The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success)."
211
"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity."
209
"A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows."
207
"What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth."
207
"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."
206
"If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe."
God,
203
"Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness."
202
"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."
202
"Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist."
202
"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."
201
"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."
201
"What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy."
199
"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."
198
"Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable."
198
"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society."
197
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