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Quotes by Philosopher
"Mind lives in comparisons, and the moment you drop comparisons, mind disappears."
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"The shores safety keeps many from the oceans treasures."
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"Water your dreams with fear, and they will wilt; with doubt, and they will wither; with hope, and they will grow; with faith, and they will flourish."
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"It's too risky", said doubters. "It's too difficult", said scoffers. "It's pointless", said mockers. "It's impossible", said haters. "It's already done", said believers."
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"We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence."
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"If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale."
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"Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it."
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"Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule."
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"Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish."
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"It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were."
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"People always get exactly what they believe to deserve, despite the fact that they may be unhappy with what they have. We are 100% responsible for our destiny, and I would dare to say 200%, because we do create the conditions for the future we end up attracting to our life. But the challenge is in learning to see it, and noticing how we do this. Therefore, there's really nothing to regret about life."
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"Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one."
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"He who acquired all his wealth by 'being at the right place at the right time' is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his 'being at the wrong place at the wrong time.'"
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"And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning."
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"Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences."
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"His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time."
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"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."
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"No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil."
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"I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work."
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"Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.And since you are a breath in God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion."
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"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
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"Without nothing, everything would be nothing."
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"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose."
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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
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"Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons."
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"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."
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"Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last."
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"Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think."
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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
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"There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation."
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"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
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"Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?"
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"In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility."
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"Love enters your heart a spark and exists your soul a flame."
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"A lion is only dangerous if it has teeth."
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"None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace."
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"Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion."
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"It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow."
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"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."
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"In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions."
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"But what is the point of education at all? Is it merely to cultivate the capacity of memory, passing examinations and getting a job and all the rest, or is education something entirely different? Something more!"
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"Alchemy: In times of recession it's not wise to argue about the price of gold."
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"Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations."
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"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."
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"Brave men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war."
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"We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?"
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