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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."
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"Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world."
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"We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves."
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"No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less."
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"Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues. If the words from the mouth of an abusive man makes you angry, quit the whole arena and you'll discover he had got his mouth shut."
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"That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow."
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"What he's looking for, what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn't want that because it is all around him. Every step's an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to be external and distant."
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"The one that will put the first human colony on another planet is certainly the most important human on Earth. And you can judge the rest of mankind of his time by how they judge him along the way."
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"It is now my intention to draw out from the story of Abraham the dialecticalconsequences inherent in it, expressing them in the form ofproblemata, in order to seewhat a tremendous paradox faith is, a paradox which is capable of transforming amurder into a holy act well-pleasing to God, a paradox which gives Isaac back toAbraham, which no thought can master, because faith begins precisely there wherethinking leaves off."
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"What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there."
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"The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs."
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"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being."
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"In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair, disposing of it by means of another question is not."
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"If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God."
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"Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning."
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"Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful " but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away."
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"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what."
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"A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist."
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"When people see some things as beautiful,other things become ugly.When people see some things as good,other things become bad."
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"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
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"Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you."
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"Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality."
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"To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified."
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"Honesty and kindness can do much more for the world than anything else. And logic will always be weak without a strong heart. That is why the wisest tend to suffer the most from heartbreak. One cannot reach for God in His wisdom with the heart of a devil."
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"It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer."
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"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."
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"Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests."
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"The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm 'O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'"
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"You must know your enemy to beat him at his own game, but be ready as well for the ultimate sacrifice, for nobody comes out of hell without a scratch."
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"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."
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"Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?"
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"You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer."
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"The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages."
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"In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable."
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"If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort."
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"No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion, and even whose wish, is entitled to a greater amount of consideration than his."
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"To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests."
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"Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived."
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"Democracy is the art of thinking independently together."
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"A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener's enemy."
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"Learn from roses; even when trampled they give off perfume, not despair."
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"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."
Love,
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"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
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"To be envied for your giftedness is better than to be accepted for your untalentedness."
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"He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man."
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