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Quotes by Philosopher
"Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons."
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"True beauty is a rayThat springs from the sacred depths of the soul,and illuminates the body, just as lifesprings from the kernel of a stone andgives colour and scent to a flower."
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"It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting."
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"God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life."
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"Thoughts can only hurt you with your permission, feelings can only wound you with your consent, experiences can only damage you with your authorization; life can only ruin you with your approval."
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"Those that think banks and governments are making them poor haven't seen the whole picture. Poverty is the act of trusting their system."
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"If seeds saw dirt as their enemy, they would lose out on the opportunity to grow."
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"Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body."
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"I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them."
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"If you are tired of walking to your destiny, sprint."
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"The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame."
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"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."
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"But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years."
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"Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical."
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"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent."
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"The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger."
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"What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural."
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"Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning."
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"Tears are a wonderful thing. They cleanse the eyes and the heart. Thanks to our tears we can better see the world and our friends."
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"Most people believe that sharing the same flesh and blood, the same basic DNA structure, makes them your family. How sad that is. Because, you see, as a spiritual person, I believe you must deserve a family, not just own it. If those that are my family, don't behave as such, they are not my family. If I have chosen them before I was born, I have been betrayed. I owe them nothing, in this or the many lives to come. In fact, if they betray me in this life, they will return as my enemies in the next. And their karma will make me victorious in that future confrontation."
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"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul."
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"Don't take life seriously, because seriousness kills creativity and joy."
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"Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who's bound to have some characteristic of quality."
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"Great things sometimes have small beginnings."
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"You were born to shine, don't ever let anyone steal your light."
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"Don't be afraid of an endless road, but the road with an end!"
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"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."
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"When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted."
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"Keeping your head above the water only works if the air is clean."
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"An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - probably more. The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: 'What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."
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"The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves."
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"As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything."
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"If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies'; he can omit to teach them the word 'fairy'."
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"Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love."
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"How can you seek God if he's already here? It's like standing in the ocean and crying out, 'I want to get wet.' You want to get over the line to God. It turns out he was always there." Francisco's eyes began to gleam. "Grace comes to those who stop struggling. When it really sinks in that there's nothing you can do to find God, he suddenly appears. That's the deepest mystery, the only one that counts."
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"Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe."
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"Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties."
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"People use masks in public and then wonder why their personal life, their relationships, don't work. If you're not being honest with others, there's nothing real about yourself to learn and, the wider the gap, the deeper the suffering. The heart wasn't meant to be closed in a box made of fake feelings and thoughts."
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"The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it."
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"If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own style, not the style your ideology or your party is dictating on you! Remember, you build a sound character mostly through refusing, through saying no, through staying different!"
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"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."
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"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."
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"The more boundless your vision, the more real you are."
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"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself."
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"Language is the light of the mind."
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"There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative."
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"Tears of joy are better than smiles of sorrow."
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"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."
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