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Quotes by Philosopher
"The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths."
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"The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction."
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"Greed's worst point is its ingratitude."
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"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."
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"Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why."
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"We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory."
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"If you love a flower, don't pick it. Love is about appreciation, not possession."
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"But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object."
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"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way."
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"Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality."
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"We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part."
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"New Rome will be destroyedBy the attacks of new vandals.God always remains silent."
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"Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease."
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"Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen."
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"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move."
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"Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your past."
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"Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on."
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"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."
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"Your greatest friendships are those that survive the greatest storms."
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"The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose not his individuality but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him."
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"The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths."
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"A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form which his thoughts take, in other words, what it is that he has thought about it."
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"If you are given a hundred city, refuse it without any hesitation; if you are given a lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest, accept it without any hesitation because all you need is just a peace of mind!"
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"Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful."
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"And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them."
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"Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, If you don't like me, screw you'. If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye."
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"The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner."
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"Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back."
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"Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known."
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"In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it."
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"Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear."
Fear,
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"Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange."
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"We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side."
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"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time."
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"Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?"
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"Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature."
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"Being forever available to the rest of the world is overrated. I mean, what are 'missed calls' invented for?"
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"One note does not make a symphony, one artist does not make an orchestra."
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"The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house."
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"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."
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"Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis."
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"If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near."
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"Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed."
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"If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research."
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