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Quotes by Philosopher
"There is no cure for ambition other than success."
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"Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture."
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"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."
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"Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution."
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"Live moment to moment; that is the only way to be free."
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"Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us."
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"The TV scientist who mutters sadly, 'The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for,' is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another."
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"Listen to the time as it can heal everything."
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"If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside."
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"The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in experimentation and in exploration of their environments."
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"The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host."
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"Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned."
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"The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind."
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"Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise."
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"Lust and force are the source of all our actions lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones."
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"Great progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included)."
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"Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom, in freedom alone can there be creativeness."
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"When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder."
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"It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before."
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"Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized."
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"Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm."
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"When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and becomes like a master."
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"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."
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"Good writers are of necessity rare."
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"The less you carry from the past, the freer you are to live in the present."
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"For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end."
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"They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms length rather than falling into the arms of infidelity."
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"The sun shines even on the wicked."
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"When the lion is wounded do not stroke its mare."
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"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."
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"Moments fly and if you don't fly with the moments, you remain on the ground apart from the moments while the moments are flying!"
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"Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly."
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"To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed."
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"If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them."
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"Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late."
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"If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there."
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"Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
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"It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
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"It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one."
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"Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence."
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"How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?"
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"Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess."
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"Belief in the causal nexus is superstition."
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"We feel secure with things we can see or touch."
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"For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God."
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"If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself " not as a stranger in the world, not as something here unprobational, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental."
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"The highest form of vanity is love of fame."
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"Once a woman goes over 25, she prioritizes 'financial security' in a potential lover. Love and good looks are just a bonus."
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"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
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