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Quotes by Philosopher
"Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion."
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"Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity."
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"In our dreams we find the dreams of others and in other's dreams we find ourselves. No will is separated from others and no dream is in itself isolated from the will of God."
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"You don't need to see the answer. You just need to ask the questions and believe the answer exists."
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"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."
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"Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is."
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"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
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"Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever."
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"The menu is not the meal."
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"Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy."
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"Determination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future."
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"If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world."
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"If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings."
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"I am my world."
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"And if I forget how many times I have been here, and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born."
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"The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe."
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"If you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing."
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"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of the Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts."
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"Success is the daughter of perseverance."
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"For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules."
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"There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth."
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"Words are not brains, you know."
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"To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up."
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"The wider our conscience, the wider the impact of our actions, and I do believe someone with more light has the moral duty to enlighten others."
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"It also appears to me that when prejudices persist obstinately, it is the fault of nobody so much as of those who make a point of proclaiming them insuperable, as an excuse to themselves for never joining in an attempt to remove them. Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share it themselves truckle to it, and flatter it, and accept it as a law of nature."
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"Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I'm doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively."
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"No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us."
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"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."
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"God loves each person, I believe; although, just like we do in our private homes, He reserves His kingdom only for those whom He enjoys."
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"An acorn is an oak tree inside out."
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"Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence."
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"Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement."
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"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal."
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"Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment."
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"It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work."
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"To be human is to be divine; you just have to realize it."
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"God descends to earth like fresh spring rain, and at every level his grace is received differently. For some it feels like love, for others like salvation. It feels like safety and warmth at one level, like coming home at another."
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"How many truths pass wrecking through the Illusion of Life, but none of them is an absolute truth therefore the real truth!"
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"There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don't forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!"
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"Take off your damned wrapper! The old buffer ordered, looking intensely at her lower part. Comfort was on her knees, rubbing the old man's dirty feet. All her plea and tears continually worsen the whole matter. I want to do you harder cos you gonna be fucked by other folks who needs a large hole, said the man, moving towards her. Comfort struggled with all her feminine might, but the old masculine but old man ripped her wrapper and slapped her on the face. Lie here, Lie here! I'm gonna do what your old man did to your mama and its gonna sweet you. She screamed as the man's organ prick her glory hole like a sharp needle."
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"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest - whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories - comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer."
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"God has more powerful aways to show Himself than any human postulate.And yet, a postulate is the highest form of prayer."
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"A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt."
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"When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process."
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"Chopra concludes his work with, "Your goal and mine isn't to imitate Jesus. It is to become part of him----or, as he said, to abide in him."
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"I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher."
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"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."
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"An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan."
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