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Quotes by Philosopher
"Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head."
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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
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"The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours."
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"A thought comes when it will, not when I will."
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"The road to failure is wide. The road to mediocrity is smooth. The road to success is bumpy. The road to genius is narrow. The road to greatness is steep."
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"Every nation needs a crystal clear mirror to see its stupidities, to see its hypocrisies, to see its faults and its evils! No nation is saint! Every nation's history is full of primitiveness and barbarity, full of wars and murders! Let every nation sees its face very clearly! Let them face their faces so that in the future they may be something better!"
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"God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought."
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"When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice."
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"Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't even capable of following someone else who leads them to it, and upon many just things but not the just itself, and all the things like that, we'll claim that they accept the seeming of everything but discern nothing of what they have opinions about."
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"The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness."
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"We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home."
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"To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good."
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"The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition even of being worthy of happiness."
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"Hence it is a superficial view (which presumably has never seen a person in despair, not even one's own self) when it is said of a man in despair, "He is consuming himself." For precisely this it is he despairs of, and to his torment it is precisely this he cannot do, since by despair fire has entered into something that cannot burn, or cannot burn up, that is, into the self."
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"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
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"It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves."
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"Just as in the second part of a verse bad poets seek a thought to fit their rhyme, so in the second half of their lives people tend to become more anxious about finding actions, positions, relationships that fit those of their earlier lives, so that everything harmonizes quite well on the surface: but their lives are no longer ruled by a strong thought, and instead, in its place, comes the intention of finding a rhyme."
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"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."
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"Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them."
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"How many things there are which I do not want."
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"Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness."
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"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."
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"A man is not for you when all he knows is to slam your back on the bed and ram into you like a wild fool. The interested ones are the ones so interested that they become very interested in only interesting things about you."
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"If you meet a number of failures the causes of which are not known, look for something that is common for each failure and that is never present when there is a success."
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"Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law."
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"I am poor-you are my riches; dark-you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After all, it is a contradiction that he can own something who does not own himself. I am happy as a child who is neither able to own anything nor allowed to. I own nothing, for I belong only to you; I am not, I have ceased to be, in order to be yours."
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"Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?"
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"They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming."
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"He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not but rejoices in what he has."
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"Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."
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"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."
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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."
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"Almost as a rule, political dissidents were writers."
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"Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life."
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"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."
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"If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness."
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"Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure."
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"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."
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"You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all."
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