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Quotes by Philosopher
"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality."
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"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."
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"If you want to look after your shadow, you just have to look after yourself, that will do!"
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"As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things."
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"Lohan and I talk about just things that happen. It's Lindsay. She's great. I went from not knowing who she was to not being able to get rid of her because she's everywhere. She's on everything."
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"The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn't given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it."
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"As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another."
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"Drop comparison and you are free. Don't compare, don't compete, just be yourself."
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"You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause."
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"Be a witness, not a judge. Focus on yourself, not on others."
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"Good deeds are ambassadors from Heaven."
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"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."
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"In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names."
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"Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities."
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"Not all who listen, believe. If you call the Gospel a crazy fairy tale, a far-too-good-to-be-true myth, an insane extension of wishful thinking, or even a blasphemous lie, I will respect you and argue with you. But if you call it a platitude, I can only pity you, for that means you have never listened to it."
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"He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties."
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"I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul."
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"Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look."
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"Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty."
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"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
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"Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism."
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"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own."
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"A rainbow is not afraid of showing its true colors because it knows it is beautiful inside out."
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"Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?"
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"The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself."
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"All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man."
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"Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss."
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"I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?"
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"When they judge you, yawn. When they misunderstand you, smile. When they underestimate you, laugh. When they condemn you, ignore. When they envy you, rejoice. When they oppose you, prevail."
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"No one benefits from an empty jar, fill yourself first before pouring out to others."
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"There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it."
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"Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread."
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"If you want to be strong, love yourself; if you want to be powerful, love others; if you want to be invincible, love everyone."
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"Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt."
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower gives when it is crushed."
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"To put it differently, as long as mind and heart are caught up in want, in desire, there must be emptiness.You want things, ideas, persons, only when you are conscious of your own emptiness, and that wanting creates a choice.When there is craving there must be choice, and choice precipitates you into the conflict of experiences.You have the capacity to choose, and thereby you limit yourself by your choice. Only when mind is free from choice is there liberation."
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"How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is."
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"It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being."
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"Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time."
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"During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposeless as they do now. The whole Renaissance is supposed to have resulted from the topsy-turvy feeling caused by Columbus' discovery of a new world. It just shook people up. The topsy-turviness of that time is recorded everywhere. There was nothing in the flat-earth views of the Old and New Testaments that predicted it. Yet people couldn't deny it. The only way they could assimilate it was to abandon the entire medieval outlook and enter into a new expansion of reason."
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"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought."
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"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."
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"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver."
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