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Quotes by Philosopher
"You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen."
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"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."
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"I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own."
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"Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, and many which appear to be oligarchical are the ruin of oligarchies. Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state."
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"Don't let a day go by without asking who you are, each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness."
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"Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute."
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"To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead."
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"When following God, Zero we never find."
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"If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions."
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"Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death."
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"Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other."
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"Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists."
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"Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom."
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"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."
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"Master Plato once said that Lux est umbra Dei, light is the shadow of God. I say this way: Light is the god of shadow!"
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"An assumption is the joke, truth the punchline."
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"Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia."
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"Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way."
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"The ingenious person will above all strive for freedom from pain and annoyance, for tranquility and leisure, and consequently seek a quiet, modest life, as undisturbed as possible, and accordingly, after some acquaintance with so-called human beings, choose seclusion and, if in possession of a great mind, even solitude. For the more somebody has in himself, the less he needs from the outside and the less others can be to him. Therefore, intellectual distinction leads to unsociability."
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"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious."
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"Women naturally prefer their ideas to their sensations."
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"Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast."
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"Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something."
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"Failure is an opportunity.If you blame someone else,there is no end to the blame.Therefore the Masterfulfills her own obligationsand corrects her own mistakes.She does what she needs to doand demands nothing of others."
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"The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say."
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"What men want is not knowledge but certainty."
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"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."
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"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."
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"One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired."
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"To have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God."
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"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
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"We have a lot of thoughts throughout our entire life, but ultimately we get all to the conclusion of a single thought: Death!"
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"The fires of hell may be made of the very love of God, experienced as torture by those who hate him: the very light of God's truth, hated and fled from in vain by those who love darkness."
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"And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:Your seeds shall live in my body,And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,And your fragrance shall be my breath,And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons."
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"Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara."
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"What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying."
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"Childhood is the sleep of reason."
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"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect."
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