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Quotes by Philosopher
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
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"One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge."
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"We are not certain we are never certain."
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"Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite."
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"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
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"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men."
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"To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority."
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"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."
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"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant."
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"You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers."
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"God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man."
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"Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art."
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"The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship."
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"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."
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"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."
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"The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life."
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"Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing."
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"Aim for the stars, and afterward, pass them."
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"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
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"It is better to be a lion for one day than a wolf for a lifetime."
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"Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct."
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"All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."
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"The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you."
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"If you have never seen a masterpiece, look in the mirror."
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"No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!"
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"Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving."
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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""
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"I have come to hide you, - darkness told the star. "I'm too bright", the defiant star replied."
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"Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked."
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"As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself."
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"Start with a cry, end with a smile."
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"This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God."
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"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
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"To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself."
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"Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals."
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"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind."
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"Not long ago Congress voted, with much patriotic rhetoric, for the imposition of severe penalties upon anyone presuming to burn the flag of the United States. Yet the very Congressmen who passed this law are responsible, by acts of commission or omission, for burning, polluting, and plundering the territory that the flag is supposed to represent. Therein, they exemplified the peculiar andperhaps fatal fallacy of civilization: the confusion of symbol with reality."
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"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."
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"Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning."
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"The best fighter is never angry."
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"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands."
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"We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves."
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"The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can."
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"I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society."
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"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."
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"Fish cannot swim out of water."
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"Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake."
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"Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness."
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