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Quotes by Philosopher
"To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the decision to choose hope one decides infinitely more than it seems, because it is an eternal decision."
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"Very often it seems that people assume that by cutting the wings of others, it becomes easier to love them. They know so little about love that end up creating a perception of love that is devilish and demoniacal. And I end with no other choice but to remain single and let them go."
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"A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end."
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"The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy."
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"I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them."
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"God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul."
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"Program your life the way you want it to be: don't waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent."
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"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
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"He who has foresight has more than two eyes."
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"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect."
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"If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants."
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"You are -- your life, and nothing else."
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"Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them."
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"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."
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"Part of God's work in his people is synchronizing the heart and the mind thus providing freedom from the deceit of emotion-based beliefs. Emotions are changing while truth is absolute. They don't believe simply because it sounds good, or deep, beautiful, happy, fun, cool, simple, or intelligent to them; but because it's true."
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"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
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"To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."
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"The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter."
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"From what you didn't say, lies that you did say."
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"What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid."
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"If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men."
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"No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out."
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"Some of you say, 'Joy is greater thar sorrow,' and others say, 'Nay, sorrow is the greater.'But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits, alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."
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"It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition."
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"Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us."
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"Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God."
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"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves."
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"Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow."
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"Harness your mind's powerand you can reach the mountaintop. Harness your heart's powerand you can reach the stars. Harness your soul's powerand you can reach the edge of the universe."
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"The fact is you cannot be intelligent merely by choosing your opinions. The intelligent man is not the man who holds such-and-such views but the man who has sound reasons for what he believes and yet does not believe it dogmatically. And opinions held for sound reasons have less emotional unity than the opinions of dogmatists because reason is non-party, favouring now one side and now another. That is what people find so unpleasant about it."
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"Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age."
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"I would like to be able to breathe- to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely."
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"To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love."
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"If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be."
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"It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray."
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"Fortune hides behind action."
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"Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness compassion intelligence everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible the absolute the sky on fire inexhaustible springtime life after death and death itself transfigured into eternal life."
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"Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people-what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest levels of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be so stopped by the mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all."
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"Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience."
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"If we take care of our neighbors, our neighbors will take care of us. If we take care of our friends, our friends will take care of us. If we take care of our family, our family will take care of us. If we take care of others, our God will take care of us."
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"Marriage converts a player into a polygamist."
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"A smile is a song from the heart, a tear is a letter from the soul."
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"Pursuing your dreams is the best way of insulating yourself from your nightmares."
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"An inch to a man's heart is a mile to his wallet."
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"As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains."
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"The world is a living image of God."
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"People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness."
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