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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes."
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"Stop falling for those who won't raise you up in the future."
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"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
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"Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price."
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"Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair."
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"The second orgasm has a biblical connotation."
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"The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature."
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"I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act."
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"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?"
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"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."
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"Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families."
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"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens."
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"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."
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"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."
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"Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness."
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"Whenever we talk about darkness and light, the terms seem so abstract that many consider the answers to be found in meditation and yoga, but I'm here to tell you that the answers are in the books you will never read, waiting all your life in the libraries you ignored and the bookstores you didn't visit. I'm here to tell you as well that you are your own Satan and evil can't possibly interfere more in your life than what you're already doing to yourself by remaining ignorant. Until you choose the light, darkness is your personal choice, and there's no reason to feel any empathy for you."
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"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
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"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
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"By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?"
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"For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they-unlike most human beings-have the means of production, and human beings, because they-unlike all companies-have the means of reproduction."
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"If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!"
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"Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another."
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"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
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"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."
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"When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings."
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"You are a god wrapped in flesh, the divinity you've always been seeking is wrapped within."
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"It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil."
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"It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances."
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"A bow is useless without an arrow."
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"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."
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"Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind."
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"If you want to accurately judge the spiritual level of any human being, count the number of religions that he is capable of understanding and observe how effective he is in applying the lessons learned to his own life or the life of others."
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"It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics."
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"Your best walk is the one you walk with your own style! Imitating others means wiping out ourselves!"
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"Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language."
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"Roald Amundsen says that 'Adventure is just bad planning.' In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!"
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"The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede."
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"We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed."
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"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
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"The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on."
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"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is."
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