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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure."
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"The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him."
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"The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self."
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"Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone."
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"To achieve success, ignore doubt; fame, ignore haters; greatness, ignore fear; and immortality, ignore hardship."
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"Never despair if you have to start at the bottom, not even the sun rises from the top."
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"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."
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"Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom."
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"Destiny is like a train with no brakes, unstoppable."
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"Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be..."
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"The basis of everything in the wizards' world rests upon the insight "All this is myself." Therefore, in accepting the world as it is, the wizard views everything in the light of self-acceptance, which is the light of love."
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"Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance."
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"People become concerned with being more humble than other people."
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"Can you look at a flower without thinking?"
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"Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities."
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"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."
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"This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves."
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"When love enters your heart, hate is given an eviction notice."
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"A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less."
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"For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first."
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"In an endless silence even screams sound silent."
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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
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"Every individual, however original he may be, is still a child of God, of his age, of his nation, of his family and friends. Only thus is he truly himself. If in all this relativity he tries to be the absolute, then he becomes ridiculous."
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"Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession."
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"All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature."
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"Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point."
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"No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation."
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"I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it."
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"In temples you find religion, but in hearts you find God."
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"Without risk faith is an impossibility."
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"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
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"The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."
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"If you want to know how negative you are, pay attention to how much you hate negativity in other people. Fragile, artificial positivity needs always to be surrounded by more positivity in order to stay positive, but the ability to be positive, happy, and even, at times, appreciative around 'negative people' is the mark of real positivity."
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"Truth that is naked is the most beautiful."
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"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible."
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"The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason."
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"Don't devalue yourself, you are the world's most precious stone."
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"You are good when you strive to give of yourself."
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"The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious."
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"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public."
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"No society wants you to be wise, because a wise person is difficult to control."
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"All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and stairs can kill us, if we do not walk circumspectly."
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