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Quotes by Philosopher
"Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine."
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"To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog!"
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"We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old."
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"So much can be done, even when little is said. So little can be done, even when much is spoken."
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"If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe."
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"Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
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"We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all."
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"...if the actor gave his performance without knowing that he was in a play, then his tears would be real tears and his life a real life. And whenever I think of this pain and joy that rise up in me, I am carried away by the knowledge that the game I am playing is the most serious and exciting there is."
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"All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another."
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"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it."
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"Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics."
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"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
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"What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation."
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"There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask the question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everwhere."
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"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."
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"Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all."
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"Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public."
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"Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth."
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"Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned."
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"I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature."
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"Seeds you plant today determine the harvest you reap tomorrow."
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"Know what you want. Pursue what you need. Realize what you ought. Attain what you desire."
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"One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say, "My memory isn't what it used to be ..." you are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations.Low expectations mean low results.The first rule of super brain is that your brain is always eavesdropping on your thoughts. As it listens, it leans. If you teach it about limitation, your brain will become limited. But what if you do the opposite? What if you teach your brain to be unlimited?"
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"Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love."
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"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true."
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"Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science."
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"And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd."
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"The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear."
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"Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow."
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"Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of."
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"The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend."
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"Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature."
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"I have forgotten my umbrella."
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"Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away."
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"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
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"Anyone can love a rose, but only a saint can love its thorns."
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"Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand."
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"If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it."
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"It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished."
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"God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight."
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"Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery."
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"There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed."
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"Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability."
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"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in the dissimilar."
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"The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
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"The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it."
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