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Quotes by Philosopher
"Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood."
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"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."
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"Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being."
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"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."
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"Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on."
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"Only a fool lights a fire and tries to hide at the same time."
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"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
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"If you know the right path, never keep it to only yourself! If you know the wrong path, never keep it to only yourself!"
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"We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought."
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"In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: 'I wish you luck.' I am astonished; but later I realize that these words connect up with his thoughts about me.And now they do not strike me as meaningless any more."
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"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics."
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"You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided."
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"In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances."
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"True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion."
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"I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice."
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"One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages."
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"I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people."
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"Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media."
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"I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue."
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"Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory."
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"Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone."
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"Dying for the world is not noble in anyway but a disgrace for the rest of the world itself, for those that don't do absolutely anything to support, help or even bleed. It's like going to war alone, while our friends cheer and applaud from the distance. It's not fun and doesn't make me proud in any way. Most so-called spiritual people in this world, are not spiritual, they think they are but they're braindead, they are living their own fantasies, their own Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings Stories, but not truly bleeding for life. And so, it's quite interesting when my friends do all they can to stop me from leaving them, from changing country, while at the same time, they give me no reason to justify being attached to them."
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"Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful."
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"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."
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"Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius."
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"When clouds will become heavier than the land in us led our entire life by the steps of our Destiny, we will understand that not their moments' rain has darkened the sun of our life, but the failure to be ourselves."
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"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
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"The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning."
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"A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it."
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"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence."
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"It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves."
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"Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public."
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"It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all....."
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"So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own."
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"Now anybody can be 'kind.' And everybody's supposed to be. Except that long ago it was something you were born into and couldn't help. Now it's just a faked-up attitude half the time, like teachers the first day of class."
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"To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent"Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest."
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"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."
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"To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself."
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"State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people."
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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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"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"
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"If you have shed a thousand tears, expect a thousand blessings."
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"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live."
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