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Quotes by Philosopher
"The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect."
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"The arrow that pierces the deer only scratches a whale."
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"Do it or don't do it but get on with it..."
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"One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union."
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"There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable."
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"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."
Art,
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"There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation."
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"The strength to move forward when others stop, to keep going when others turn back, is the key to unlocking your greatest potential."
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"The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all."
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"If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don't ever wake him up; put the food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!"
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"The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race."
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"The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture."
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"In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays."
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"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."
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"But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history."
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"If you find a book you like on Amazon, please buy it somewhere else!"
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"If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals."
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"Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering."
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"If your dreams are priceless, they are worth more than your pain."
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"Knowledge is borrowed; wisdom is your own experience."
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"You can just be your self's stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!"
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"Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt."
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"Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self."
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"Machinery which is not used is not capital."
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"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."
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"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty."
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"Height is not might."
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"If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living."
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"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."
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"Do not walk away from death because you came out of it."
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"Measure your success by the number of people who envy you."
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"To go against the grain is the secret of bravery."
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"Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols."
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"No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly."
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"Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated."
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"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."
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"I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different."
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"The attempt of trying to solve a problem without analyzing responsibilities is like trying to understand why a gun was shot without talking to the one using it."
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"It is not death we fear but the thought of it."
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"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."
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"This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view."
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"I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found."
God,
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"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."
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"As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen."
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"Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their empire, and secure command to that sex which ought to obey."
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