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Quotes by Philosopher
"Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion."
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"Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!"
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"Only the educated are free."
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"It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some direction. Not mine. I cannot even decide whether it is handsome or ugly. I think it is ugly because I have been told so. But it doesn't strike me. At heart, I am even shocked that anyone can attribute qualities of this kind to it, as if you called a clod of earth or a block of stone beautiful or ugly."
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"Existence is beyond the power of wordsTo define:Terms may be usedBut are none of them absolute.In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words,Words came out of the womb of matter;And whether a man dispassionatelySees to the core of lifeOr passionatelySees the surface,The core and the surfaceAre essentially the same,Words making them seem differentOnly to express appearance.If name be needed, wonder names them both:From wonder into wonderExistence opens."
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"The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know."
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"No person can walk all alone because to walk all alone one must have no memories at all from the past!"
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"Ordinary people think you are crazy when you attempt the impossible, deride you when you are halfway to achieving it, and envy you when you achieve it."
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"It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science."
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"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."
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"If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment " how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?"
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"Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly, without first having to lose one's life."
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"If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it."
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"I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of."
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"Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed."
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"Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier."
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"A versifier's poem is born by the sound, a poet's sound is born by the poem."
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"The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd."
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"We need knew knights, but without swords."
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"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."
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"All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control."
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"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
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"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
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"Whoever decides to hate others has chosen to walk alone."
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"Health so far outweighs all external goods that a healthy beggars is truly more fortunate than a king in poor health."
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"When you have nothing, be hopeful; when you have little, be grateful; when you have much, be sensible; when you have everything, be humble."
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"Just remain in the center, watching. And then forget that you are there."
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"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
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"It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss which is experienced only by those who suffer deeply. Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds."
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"If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out."
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"Procreation annihilates eternity."
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"The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune."
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"Pride ... is the direct appreciation of oneself."
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"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."
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"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it."
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"For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly."
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"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."
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"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."
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"Experience is the best of schoolmasters only the school-fees are heavy."
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"Hope is a passion for the possible."
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"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them."
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"To understand possible means to understand impossible."
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"Be the chief but never the lord."
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"When you sweep the universe, nothing changes, only the things change their places; when the universe sweeps you, nothing changes, only the things change their places!"
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