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Quotes by Philosopher
"If size really mattered, the whale, not the shark, would rule the waters."
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"Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain."
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"Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion harness transformation. Food and air aren't just shuffled about but, rather, undergo the exact chemical bonding needed to keep you alive. The sugar extracted from an orange travels to the brain and fuels a thought. The emergent property in this case is the newness of the thought; no molecules in the history of the universe ever combined to produce that exact thought."
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"What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor."
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"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
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"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."
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"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."
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"To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism."
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"The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead."
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"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly."
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"But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of."
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"Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled."
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"Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood."
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"Life is a constant process of dying."
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"Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious."
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"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."
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"If his forces are united, separate them."
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"Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye."
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"Once you show someone your true colors it is impossible to paint over them."
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"Detach from the noise and listen to your inner voice."
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"As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men have yet to master disagreeing without flashing all their frustrations that come with it; the conservative will throw half-truths while the liberal will throw insults. Combine these and what do you get? A dishonest mockery of a country."
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"A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."."
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"There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies."
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"Feminists who accept the claim made in The Book of Genesis, and, that God is a he, need to make their minds up."
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"If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!"
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"One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests."
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"I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks."
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"Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare."
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"The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
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"The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be."
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"And uh, forget the money. Because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life wasting your time. You will be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is, in order to do things you don't like doing, which is stupid. Better to have a short life that is full of things you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way."
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"The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?"
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"What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance."
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"I have seen enough. I am ready to see the world die."
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"So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment."
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"You can see a person without using your eyes, hear a person without using your ears, carry a person without using your hands, speak to a person without using your mouth, and move a person without using your feet."
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"This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream."
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"Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do."
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"The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able."
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"The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form."
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