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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"To be a champion, compete; to be a great champion, compete with the best; but to be the greatest champion, compete with yourself."
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"How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed."
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"You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world."
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"There's one blessing only the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self."
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"Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment."
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"You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination."
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"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."
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"Don't settle for a star when you can have the whole sky."
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"Define yourself, you have the monopoly on your life's dictionary."
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"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts."
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"There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!"
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"All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort."
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"Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future."
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"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men."
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"To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is."
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"Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted."
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"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink."
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"Fame is something which must be won honour is something which must not be lost."
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"It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is."
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"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell."
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"If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are too busy to love."
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"As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."
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"Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure " attractively packaged but inferior in content."
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"The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling."
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"I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself."
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"Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied."
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"Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that."
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"I'm not into writing many more books or more pages. My goal is to increase the value of each sentence I write. And for that, I have to just erase my past and bring only forward what matches the new me, things I can easily rewrite and adapt to my new perspective."
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"Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them."
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"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."
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"Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle."
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"Your mind is an entire world, your heart is an entire cosmos, and your soul is an entire universe."
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"Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free."
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"If we want to survive this economic collapse, new mandatory school subjects should be eCommerce, Chinese, spirituality and aesthetics."
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"The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous is its general nature; the more pains its constitution involves, the darker and more malign its total temper. To deny this would seem impossible, yet it is done daily; for there is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition; and candor and a sense of justice are, in such a case, the first things lost."
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"The worth of a state in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it."
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"With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken-formerly it was only the prominent-and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait."
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"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."
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"Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth."
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"A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do."
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"There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death."
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"If you can say no to the things you don't like and if you can persist along the way of trying to get better, you will find them, you always will. That is the law of life."
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"There is no cure for ambition other than success."
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