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Quotes by Philosopher
"The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity."
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"Petronius says that 'Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.' That is very true, otherwise there wouldn't exist any religion!"
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"If you blame gravity for falling in love, even God has the right to laugh at you."
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"Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every increase in consciousness is an increase in despair."
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"Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end."
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"Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?"
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"Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with myths can unify a culture. The forces of imagination and the Apollonian dream are saved only by myth from indiscriminate rambling. The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, ubiquitous but unnoticed, presiding over the growth of the child's mind and interpreting to the mature man his life and struggles."
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"We preoccupy ourselves with what we had - or what we want to have - at the expense of what we have."
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"Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments."
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"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."
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"We grow from our dreams."
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"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."
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"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."
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"There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation."
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"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love."
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"The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind."
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"What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher."
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"The boring thing with 'No sex before marriage' is that kids will never get to attend their parents' wedding."
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"For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most."
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"If the sun needed friends to shine, it would not rule the sky alone."
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"Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness."
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"The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation."
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"Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today."
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"He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example."
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"In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team."
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"I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan."
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"We call talking about other people's personal lives 'gossip' only if we aren't or weren't part of the conversation."
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"It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others."
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"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."
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"Obstacles are real only for those who surrender the obstacles in their minds!"
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"Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent."
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"I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox."
Talk,
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"Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes."
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"I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done."
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"I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years."
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"But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing...and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, 'I am a mechanic.' At 5 P.M. or whenever their eight hours were in, you knew they would cut it off and not have another thought about their work. They were already trying not to have any thoughts about their work on the job."
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"To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes."
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"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."
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"The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment."
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"As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion."
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"But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value."
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"A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself."
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"Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure."
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"The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered."
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"Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be defiled over and over again."
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"Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear."
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