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Quotes by Philosopher
"Compassion is the basis of morality."
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"The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything."
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"God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech."
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"A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal."
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"The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there!"
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"All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible."
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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
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"Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived."
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"Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things!"
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"Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class."
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"You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act."
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"I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief."
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"I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way."
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"The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation."
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"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."
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"Weekends are an employee's parole."
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"Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don't be sure of your path! Don't ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths!"
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"Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!"
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"Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity."
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"Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them."
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"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
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"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."
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"The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself."
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"The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue."
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"After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst."
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"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."
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"Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy."
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"Meditation is the art of doing nothing and being everything."
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"To be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer."
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"Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion."
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"Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters."
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"Little things matter. Even a small tear wets the face."
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"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."
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"The point... is to dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect to call off the thoughts when turning upon disagreeable objects and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."
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"I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her."
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"An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards."
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"There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline."
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"He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection."
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"Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life."
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"This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis of the wages system even the unpaid labour seems to be paid labour. With the slave, on the contrary, even that part of his labour which is paid appears to be unpaid. Of course, in order to work the slave must live, and one part of his working day goes to replace the value of his own maintenance. But since no bargain is struck between him and his master, and no acts of selling and buying are going on between the two parties, all his labour seems to be given away for nothing."
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"Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil."
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"If God adds another day to our life let us receive it gladly."
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"A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not."
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