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Quotes by Philosopher
"The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important."
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"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life."
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"You have the world at your feet if you have wisdom in your mind. You have the world in your hands if you have joy in your heart. You have the world in your bosom if you have love in your soul."
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"This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver."
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"I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice."
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"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."
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"The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence."
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"The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it."
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"Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it."
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"Sometimes principles must be quitted without blinking en eye to discover the new paths!"
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"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
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"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come."
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"Suppressing the fear of death makes it all the stronger. The point is only to know, beyond any shadow of doubt, that "I" and all other "things" now present will vanish, until this knowledge compels you to release them - to know it now as surely as if you had just fallen off the rim of the Grand Canyon. Indeed you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it's no help to cling to the rocks falling with you. If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all."
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"The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on."
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"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."
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"When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words."
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"Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience."
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"One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities."
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"No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles."
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"You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes."
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"It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light."
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"The worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth."
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"You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted."
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"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
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"If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked."
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"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."
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"Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on."
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"The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence."
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"Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes."
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"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."
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"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."
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"When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes."
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"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."
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"Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity."
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"When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh."
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"While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego, it sure is good for his intellect."
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"Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too 'scientific. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty-thousand-page menu and no food."
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"Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action."
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"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."
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"It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves."
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"The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind."
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"A butterfly is a caterpillar who never gave up on his dream to fly."
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"The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring."
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"Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning."
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"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
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"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"
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