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Quotes by Philosopher
"Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves."
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"No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life."
30
"She was startled. "But you're human, aren't you?"In some ways yes. But in other ways I'm a stranger to your kind. I have a friend who calls you plucked angels, and he claims you're a total waste of spirit. Do you ever think like that?"Of course, in honest moments. But I can be just as honest and think that we aren't a spiritual waste but a spiritual potential waiting to grow."
30
"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."
30
"In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding."
30
"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
30
"The mistakes of the wise lead them to light. The triumphs of fools lead them to darkness."
30
"Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated."
30
"By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all."
30
"Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time."
30
"Hard work is the bridge between success and your dreams."
30
"The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world."
30
"It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty, and for no other reason... [I]t is by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful."
30
"Nobody will ever be able to understand the meaning of the measure of his own words."
30
"You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you."
30
"Watch out when the bad treats you well!"
30
"Truth is my weapon. Knowledge is my armor. Wisdom is my strategist. Love is my warrior."
30
"When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination."
30
"When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure."
30
"Pretend you're not spending $3 to read one of my books but buying me a coffee and having a conversation about yourself."
30
"This is not a philosophy of not looking where one is going, it is a philosophy of not making where one is going so much more important than where one is that there will be no point in going."
30
"We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty."
30
"Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools."
30
"The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming."
30
"You don't kill your ego. You overcome it by loving other people. And for that you need both ego and super-ego."
30
"Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?"
30
"Those who seek enjoyment in life are the ones that think that the world is a playground."
30
"America is the best half-educated country in the world."
30
"No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding."
30
"Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all."
30
"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done."
30
"Don't give people the chance to possess you with their negativity; their gibberish can look so charming, but it can't make you a better person."
30
"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."
30
"Be the greatest thing that has ever happened to you."
30
"Whom they have injured they also hate."
30
"Books can change the world. They represent a second chance for those that want to change their life and can't."
30
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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"What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is."
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"If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself."
29
"Money is the alienated essence of man's labor and life, and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it."
29
"Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable."
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"In the essence of truth lies deceit."
29
"Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety."
29
"This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility."
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"There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem."
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"It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected."
29
"Pray for faith, hope for peace, strive for unity, and persevere for harmony."
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"It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being."
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