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Quotes by Philosopher
"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards."
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"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."
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"Life's most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself."
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"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."
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"After one my breakups, my former girlfriend said we have misunderstandings. We never had. It's just that I was living for the future while she was living for the tomorrow. I couldn't wait for someone unwilling to grow up and able to keep only short term promises."
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"A comfortable life will never produce a strong character."
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"When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title."
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"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."
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"When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one."
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"From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections."
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"Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another."
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"Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible."
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"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."
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"Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what they had already presumed to be true."
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"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."
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"Be yourself, nobody can do it better than you."
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"Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being."
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"We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free."
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"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."
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"As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so."
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"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees."
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"If there is no room in the river, swim to the ocean."
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"I'm not a political Christian; for the most part I allow people even their vain, earthly rights. And I certainly don't see anti-Christians as bad or evil (as if they actually have the power to pose any kind of threat against God Almighty), but rather complete idiots I was commanded to love."
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"Hell is-other people!"
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"Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom."
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"In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word."
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"You are your greatest asset in the business of your life."
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"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."
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"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."
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"We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness."
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"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."
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"Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment."
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"Some people do not really hate aging, they merely love the colour black."
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"To do great things is difficult but to command great things is more difficult."
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"Never mock a cub, one day it will become a lion."
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"Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it."
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"Light another's path and the universe will light your own."
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"The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned."
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"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."
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"There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs."
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"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."
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