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Quotes by Philosopher
"Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness."
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"As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears."
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"We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those."
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"Genius is in you, but like a seed, you determine whether it dies or grows."
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"People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best."
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"She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before."
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"The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War."
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"Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power."
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"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
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"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."
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"All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles."
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"It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence."
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"One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole " there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole, But nothing exists apart from the whole!"
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"Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome."
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"A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity."
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"Courage leads starward fear toward death."
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"Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire."
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"Nothing reminds one of how shitty inequality is more often than the fact that there are companies who make and people who use 1-ply toilet papers."
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"Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself."
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"The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world."
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"We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced."
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"It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own."
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"Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts."
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"As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type."
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"Everything is available to you in the present moment. Nothing is missing."
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"We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life."
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"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
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"By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands."
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"Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth."
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"He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation."
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"A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view."
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"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."
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"As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time."
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"For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity."
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"As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead."
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"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
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"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."
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"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."
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"On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win."
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"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."
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"You need to lose yourself and disappear in the depths of the repetitions? Find a coast and watch the repetitive waves! Soon your mind vanishes away and when your mind disappears you disappear!"
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"For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another."
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"My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool."
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"Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely."
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"Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things."
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"If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!"
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"I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give."
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