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Quotes by Philosopher
"But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing."
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"If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat."
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"There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity."
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"According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance."
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"Does somebody know why the consciousness of death has to die?"
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"I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it."
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"Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime."
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"What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough."
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"Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work."
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"When we see a good-looking woman with a not-so-good-looking man, we assume that the man must have a good bank balance. When we see a good-looking man with a not-so-good-looking woman, we assume that she must be good in bed."
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"The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight."
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"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful."
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"All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world."
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"He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it."
Life,
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"All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon."
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"What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty."
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"We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do."
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"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America."
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"Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work."
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"To attack terrorism, firstly attack the ignorance which is the greatest source of terrorism! Attack the ignorance worldwide because ignorance often creates sick minds!"
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"When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space."
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"If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory."
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"It may sound like a bold statement for one to claim that he is the world's best at something but it's not an impossibility. I've done it many times, and so did Olympic athletes. It requires more boldness to distrust what I just said, as those who do won't read my books and access the reasons to why they're bestsellers."
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"A flower always turns its face to light, be likewise."
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"Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands."
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"Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination."
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"Procrastination threatens critics' livelihood."
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"Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched."
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"He who hunts deer must not boast to he who hunts buffalo."
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"Fear is the first and last obstacle on your path to greatness."
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"If you could really see that tree over there," Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over.""Really? But why?" asked Arthur. "It's just a tree.""No," Merlin said, "It's just a tree in your mind. To another mind it is an expression of infinite spirit and beauty. In God's mind it is a dear child, sweeter than anything you can imagine."
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"Discord on one level is harmony on another."
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"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies."
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"Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity."
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"You are never a real guru until you understand that you are serving others and delivering them to the light."
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"In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean."
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"Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick."
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"To know is to memorize. To understand is to utilize. The accumulation of knowledge is learnedness. The accumulation of wisdom is experience."
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"I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another."
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"The loveliest flowers sometimes grow in the ugliest places."
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"Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of 'pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism."
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"When Freemasons vainglory on their deeds during the French Revolution, they forget that many innocents paid with their own life for that, including pregnant women and children from the royal families, and those that have witness it didn't forget, and will likewise turn the karma back on them in the years to come, making their innocents pay for the guilty ones."
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"It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it."
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"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."
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"Look at yourself from the space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from the space they look big because they have the power to change the universe, to change the space!"
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"At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world's rivers, between your bones and the chalk cliffs of Dover."
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"There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter."
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"The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths."
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