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Quotes by Philosopher
"Once you label me you negate me."
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"And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man."
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"If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt."
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"Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not."
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"There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone."
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"Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do."
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"Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents."
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"Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness."
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
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"The sound we hear when it snows is the soft song of the white beauty!"
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"Now we've a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself."
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"The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it."
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"What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you."
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"In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on."
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"A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp."
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"We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain. The cortex is often called the new brain, yet the old brain held sway in humans for millions of years, as it does today in most living things. The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read. But it does possess the power to feel and, above all, to be. It was the old brain that caused our forebears to sense the closeness of a mysterious presence everywhere in Nature."
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"The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling."
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"In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases."
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"All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward."
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"Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts! surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and hate you for what you have become."
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"The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty."
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"When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion."
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"The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said."
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"If you want to know how good a tree is, examine how many birds flock to feed off of its fruit."
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"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property."
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"Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member."
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"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."
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"Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force."
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"Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!"
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"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
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"The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah."
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"Wealth won't make you happy. Power won't make you remarkable. Fame won't make you honorable. Education won't make you wise."
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"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."
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"I love to share my problems with friends. They think I'm revealing my personal life, but I'm actually revealing theirs. What a person does with what you give reveals the real character of such person, and you can envision and predict a whole set of interactions through their life and based on such reactions. You can even predict how long their marriage will last, or what they will do when you need them."
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"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."
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"The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century."
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"You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you."
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"Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes."
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"Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!"
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"If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder."
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"The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book."
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"Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues."
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"To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give."
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"Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God."
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"The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way!"
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"The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination."
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