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Quotes by Philosopher
"I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings."
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"The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things."
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"I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race."
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"Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell."
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"The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor...to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University."
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"Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery."
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"Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us."
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"If you kick a lion when it is down, God help you when it gets up."
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"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."
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"It is a bird's imagination, not its wings, that determines how high it can fly."
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"The greatest evidence of what is inside of a seed is its fruit."
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"You have not lost if you have learned one new lesson. You have not lost if you have helped one new person. You have not lost if you have overcome one new obstacle."
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"Be slow to teach, and quick to learn."
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"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."
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"Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint."
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"Can I have a motorcycle when I get old enough?'If you take care of it.'What do you have to do?'Lot's of things. You've been watching me.'Will you show me all of them?'Sure.'Is it hard?'Not if you have the right attitudes. It's having the right attitudes that's hard.'Oh.'After a while I see he is sitting down again. Then he says, 'Dad?'What?'Will I have the right attitudes?'I think so,' I say. 'I don't think that will be any problem at all."
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"We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all,and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly."
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"The sweetest fruits grow at the top of a tree so that only those who deserve them can reach them."
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"Take one step towards excellence, and success will take ten towards you. Take ten steps towards excellence, and success will take a hundred towards you. Take a hundred steps towards excellence, and success will take a thousand towards you."
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"Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth."
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"Everyone without exception is searching for happiness."
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"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
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"Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes."
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"Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done."
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"The mind speaks, though it does not have lips. The heart moves, though it does not have feet. The soul rises, though it does not have wings."
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"Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines."
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"A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun."
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"If a man would move the world he must first move himself."
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"Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books."
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"Convictions are prisons."
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"How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?"
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"There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far."
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"Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."
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"The most valuable real estate in the universe is inside your soul."
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"Whether the glass is half empty or half full, you have the power to fill it up."
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"The past is your teacher. The present is your opportunity. The future is your reward."
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"The significance of life is living."
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"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."
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"Temporary failure will not prevent you from achieving lasting success."
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"Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion."
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