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Quotes by Philosopher
"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never."
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"Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born."
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"A stone, no matter how small, resists the wind."
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"Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive."
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"If any woman opens her legs for you, don't feel so lucky to be fed with nonsense, she has been a bitch for a long time, and now its your own turn to get a share from her itching tunnel."
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"It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist."
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"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
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"The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison."
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"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."
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"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."
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"Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning."
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"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
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"The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know."
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"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it."
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"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."
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"The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capitals are unequal, that capital is the decisive power, and that therefore the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, have become the first class in society."
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"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."
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"Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God."
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"It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but this I do gain and in all eternity can never renounce-it is a self-contradiction. But it takes a paradoxical and humble courage to grasp the whole temporal realm now by virtue of the absurd, and this is the courage of faith."
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"Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished."
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"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."
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"Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!"
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"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish."
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"We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to whatever we cannot part with that is less than God, our true good. And that includes ourselves-especially ourselves and our own will. So we must renounce this too, this especially. God's world is not the problem; our attitude is. God does not want us to renounce the unspeakably beautiful world he gave us as creation, as gift, as it really is. He wants us to renounce it as creator, as our god, as it really is not. This wonderful world is our God-given house to live in and to live the love of God in. But God's bride must learn not to love her house as if it were her husband."
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"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."
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"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."
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"It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all."
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"Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
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"Enlightenment isn't the end but the beginning, the start of a journey that a small group of people begun while the rest sleeps."
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"Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing."
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"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
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"It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends."
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"Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?"
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"I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth."
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"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
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"Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle."
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"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."
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"Taking a step in the dark is braver than taking a leap in light."
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"Planting your own garden is better than waiting for someone to bring you flowers."
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"Bless the world with your positive thoughts, with your positive desires, with your positive words, and with your positive actions."
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"Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it."
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"All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."
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"Without kindness there can be no true joy."
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"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
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"Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone."
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"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"
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