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Quotes by Philosopher
"The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand."
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"Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living."
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"Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns."
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"In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties."
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"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
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"Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet."
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"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."
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"The grass must bend when the wind blows across it."
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"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."
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"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."
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"Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so."
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"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."
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"And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which changes, they supposed that it is impossible to make any true statement about that which is in all ways and entirely changeable. For it was from this supposition that there blossomed forth the most extreme view of those which we have mentioned, that of the professed followers of Heraclitus, and such as Cratylus held, who ended by thinking that one need not say anything, and only moved his finger; and who criticized Heraclitus for saying that one cannot enter the same river twice, for he himself held that it cannot be done even once."
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"He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs for one another."
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"Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life."
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"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct."
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"A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace."
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"It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent."
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"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
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"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them."
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"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."
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"Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses."
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"Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen."
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"Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself."
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"If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert."
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"Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness."
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"A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."
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"Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bêtes, témoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté."
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"Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice."
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"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."
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"If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the "Beyond " into nothingness " one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering."
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"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
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"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
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"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned."
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"There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
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"A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand."
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"Love is a hook; the moment a man swallows it, a woman knows she has him forever."
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"I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk."
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"I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn't accept?"
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"Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels."
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"Talent is the seed, hard work is the stem, perseverance is the branch, and success is the fruit."
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