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Quotes by Philosopher
"Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,but it is belief that is the positive, it is beliefthat sustains thought and holds the world together."
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"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence."
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"Nobody fights over the opinion of which book is better. So why do we fight over which religion is better, if they're all based on books? Let us read and learn from them all and unite in our differences and disagreements too."
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"If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!"
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"I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one."
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"To give light to others, you must first take light from others!"
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"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business."
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"All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand."
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"As soon as you ascend to heaven in spirit, by being more spiritual and honest with yourself, you will notice that hell comes to you at the exact same time, and earth will literally feel like hell. Everyone that can't see it went on the opposite direction, from crazy to crazier. They see butterflies instead of worms and juice instead of blood, and can't smell their own rotting flesh. They went from surviving to becoming zombies. That's why I despite the vast majority of those that consider themselves spiritual. They are in fact lunatics disguised as saints."
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"Safe sex - with a condom, rubber gloves and a wet suit is fine as long as you don't fall in love."
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"In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact."
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"While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful."
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"There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world."
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"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."
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"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
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"In the end, the world returns to a grain."
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"People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip."
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"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
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"A star would lose its value if it tried to be something else, just be yourself."
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"Dance, as if nobody is watching. Love, as if you have never been hurt before."
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"When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!"
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"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."
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"When one has not had a good father one must create one."
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"Finding out that you are not your lover's only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick - or the side dick."
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"Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others."
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"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
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"By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!"
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"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it."
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"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."
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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind."
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"I might be tempted to make to Christendom a proposal different from that of the Bible society. Let us collect all the New Testaments we have, let us bring them out to an open square or up to the summit of a mountain, and while we all kneel let one man speak to God thus: 'Take this book back again; we men, such as we now are, are not fit to go in for this sort of thing, it only makes us unhappy,' This is my proposal, that like those inhabitants in Gerasa we beseech Christ to depart from our borders. This would be an honest and human way of talking -- rather different from the disgusting hypocritical priestly fudge..."
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"The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions."
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"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare."
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"Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler."
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"Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed."
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"May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law."
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"A man's rivals tell you how great he is."
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"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."
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"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going."
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"Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad."
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"An 'Employee of the Month' is a titled given to someone who best helped someone else actualize their dream-in that particular month."
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"Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?"
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"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy."
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"Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life."
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"In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere."
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"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."
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"If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character.If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home.If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations.When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world."
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"If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don't forget, violence makes you a low man!"
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