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Quotes by Philosopher
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
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"Unlocking your potential requires the key of faith."
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"I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real."
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"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
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"In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable."
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"What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct."
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"Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add."
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"Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state."
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"What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error."
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"The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests."
Mind,
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"I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth."
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"The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience."
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"Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted."
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"I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace."
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"His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape."
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"You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder."
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"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
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"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."
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"The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt."
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"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."
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"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."
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"God's strength is rooted in being faithful to his true Self, in just Being good. The Devil's strength depends on synergies, agreements, cooperation and beliefs."
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"God is the Self of the world, but you can't see God for the same reason that, without a mirror, you can't see your own eyes, and you certainly can't bite your own teeth or look inside your head. Your self is that cleverly hidden because it is God hiding."
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"There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know."
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"Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production."
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"Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order."
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"He who is firm in will molds the world to himself."
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"You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded."
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"Meditation will give you a little glimpse, a little taste, that the truth is inside you."
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"Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that."
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"We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty."
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"The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active."
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"Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another."
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"It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.There is always a certain madness in love. But also there is always a certain method in madness."
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"What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature."
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"Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse."
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"When the storm comes it is your soulmate who pulls out the umbrella and shelters you until the rainbow comes."
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"If you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they do not have the key. But there is no point in talking to them about it, unless of course you want them to admire the room from outside! The honorable thing to do is put a lock on the door which will be noticed only by those who can open it, not by the rest."
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"If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves."
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"If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell."
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"That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man."
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"Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally."
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"He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love."
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"The title of this Chautauqua is 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,' not 'Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing,' and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very little Zen. Zen is the 'spirit of the valley,' not the mountaintop. The only Zen you fin on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."
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"Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in future."
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"In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit."
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"And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also."
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"First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker."
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