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Quotes by Philosopher
"Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go."
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"The farther away, the closer the home becomes."
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"The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice."
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"If you have a dream no one else can see, a reward awaits you that no one else can have."
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"Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces."
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"You are not what you are, You are darkness Looking for light within."
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"Love is a spirit, and therefore cannot die a natural death."
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"Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor."
Sex,
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"Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have."
Man,
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"A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't."
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"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
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"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"
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"Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood."
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"I am forever walking upon these shores,Betwixt the sand and the foam,The high tide will erase my food prints,And the wind will blow away the foam,But the sea and the shore will remain forever."
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"The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration."
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"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."
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"It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions."
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"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking."
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"I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old."
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"The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above, generally, one has a difficult time reaching the compassionate side of love for others, the side that understands (or at least attempts to understand): 'I am aware that I am not so far from falling in the same way.' Humility seeks to understand, and sometimes even relate; and in result, the love lovingly, properly, effectively wills the removal of the destructive sins of another as from oneself."
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"It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public."
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"Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive."
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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."
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"Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not."
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"Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God."
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"Blessed are the ones who offer coffee to writers, for they will get all the rewards mentioned in the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita."
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"Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers."
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"The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live."
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"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
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"This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."
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"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others."
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"The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him."
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"If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance."
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"...what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?"
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"Lao Tzu "The key to growth is the introductionof higher dimensions of consciousnessinto our awareness."
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"In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations."
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"A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being."
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"Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology."
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"The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion action will."
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"Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts."
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"In the middle of nowhere, an old wooden bridge is a golden bridge!"
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"A slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, 'If you don't whip me, I won't work. He didn't get whipped. He didn't work."
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"Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance."
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"Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow."
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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
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"Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them."
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