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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, "society, inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people-"base."
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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."
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"We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains."
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"My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest."
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"In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty..."
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"The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do."
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"You cannot lose if you have learned one new lesson. You cannot lose if you have helped one new person. You cannot lose if you have overcome one new obstacle."
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"Let the boundlessness be your boundary!"
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"If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril."
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"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
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"The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable."
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"Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction."
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"While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection."
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"A flower does not fulfill its destiny until it blooms, and a star does not fulfill its destiny until it shines."
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"Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction."
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"After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country."
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"Some people think they are punishing me when they hit their head against a wall. If that's not insane, I wonder what is. Yeah, I'm going to punish you for being my boyfriend, by insulting you and destroying our relationship. I'm going to punish you for taking me on vacations, by disappearing, even if you are the one with the house keys. I'm going to punish you for giving me books to read, by not reading them. I'm going to punish you for complaining about my behavior, by becoming a much worse person. And well, why not, I'm going to commit suicide to prove you my life has no value and you are wrong in thinking it does? It's so sad when people are literally as stupid and dumb as they are insane."
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"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind."
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"All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things."
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"Beliefs shape the size of our opportunities. Love expands them beyond faith."
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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
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"Weeds blend in, roses stand out."
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"If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them."
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"Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague."
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"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others."
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"Isn't reading a kind of preparation for life?' But life is composed of things other than books. It is as if an athlete, on entering the stadium, were to complain that he's not outside exercising.This was the goal of your exercise, of your weights, your practice ring and your training partners."
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"Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins."
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"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
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"The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure."
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"Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man."
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"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
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"Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!"
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"The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector."
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"Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul."
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"Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it."
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"You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable."
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"If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own."
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"Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition."
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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun."
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"We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do."
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"To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body."
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"When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent."
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"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs, he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
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