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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy."
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"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
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"It is very possible that the majority of a nation can choose darkness! Such fool nations learn the beauty of light through the unbearable and inconceivable pains!"
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"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
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"Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The products of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations."
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"Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them."
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"The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution."
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"Teachers are in your life to guide you. Friends are in your life to support you. Parents are in your life to bless you. Enemies are in your life to strengthen you."
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"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."
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"The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse."
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"It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself."
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"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides."
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"It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art."
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"Behind your greatest fears lie your greatest rewards."
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"The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society."
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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance."
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"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience."
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"A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings."
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"A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion."
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"In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking."
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"Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary."
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"Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean."
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"There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked."
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"Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men."
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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
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"Go after your dreams confidently. Go after your aspirations positively. Go after your goals expectantly."
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"You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect."
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"Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder."
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"When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise."
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"The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch."
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"The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation."
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"For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics."
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"Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too."
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"When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical."
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"We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ."
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"Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."
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"Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality."
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"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
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"Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know."
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"The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated."
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"A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow."
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"You like the wind? There is no wind? Start running! Create your own wind!"
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"The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity."
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"I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity."
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"Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!"
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"The doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself."
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