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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time."
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"The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws."
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"As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost."
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"If I save my insight, I don't attend to weakness of eyesight."
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"Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image."
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"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."
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"It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious."
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"All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation."
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"Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false."
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"We are angrier with the sky than with our actions."
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"With your goal you make the one."
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"The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward."
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"The duality and the freewill don't exist. There's only one choice to be made, the one that bring us upwards. Self-destruction is not a choice. And yet, every duality presents exactly that, and not really a choice."
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"Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them."
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"In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them."
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"Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."
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"Prosperity is good, happiness is better, and health is the best."
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"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
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"Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?"
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"Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise."
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"Your love must be like the sun; it should shine on everyone unconditionally."
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"The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause."
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"I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today."
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"Faith is above all openness an act of trust in the unknown."
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"He who is happy in his hut is better than he who is miserable in his palace."
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"The Christian church is an encyclopaedia of prehistoric cults and conceptions of the most diverse orgiin and that is why it is so capable of proselytising: it always could and it can still go wherever it pleases and it always found and it always finds something similar to itself to which it can adapt itself and gradually impose upon it a Christian meaning."
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"People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem."
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"When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force."
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"Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people."
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"I start every morning with a Rosicrucian ritual, meditation and exercise. I can't separate myself from this habit of connecting myself to the other realm every day, not anymore, because I'm actually more there than here. I always was, but now I know how to maintain this balance, even in solitude."
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"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."
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"It's as valid to repeat to ourselves what we need to believe, as it is to believe in the things others repeatedly told us but affect us negatively. It sounds crazy, but not as crazy as believing in the things that others said and damage us."
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"Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion."
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"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing."
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"Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them."
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"Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite!"
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"Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things."
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"Superficial cannot discover the deep, because both live in different levels and likewise the deep cannot meet the deepest! Change your level to reach at different levels!"
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"It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language."
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"I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a rA©sumA© yet immoral to critique morality."
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"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."
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"Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety."
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"The unhappy people of the known paths must certainly try the unknown paths in their search of happiness!"
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"The fate of the world depends on the triumph of the good people!"
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"But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them on different shelves; nothing more being final about their positions than that they no longer lie side by side. The onlooker who doesn't know the difficulty of the task might well think in such a case that nothing at all had been achieved."
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"The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people."
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"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."
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