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Quotes by Philosopher
"Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real."
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"As the sun lives on when it sets in the warmth it has given to others, you too will live on in the hearts of those whose lives you have touched."
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"The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."
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"Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking, for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else."
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"Emotion is first of all and in principle an accident."
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"Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is."
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"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans, in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence."
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"Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not."
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"A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."
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"Christianity is not a doctrine, I mean, a theory about what has happened and will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life. For 'consciousness of sin' is a real event an so are despair and salvation through faith. Those who speak of such things (Bunyan for instance) are simply describing what has happened to them, whatever gloss anyone may want to put on it."
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"We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps."
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"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
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"Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving absolutely nothing memorable in the minds of his class, curve out the scores on an irrelevant test, and leave the impression that some have learned and some have not. But if the grades are removed the class is forced to wonder each day what it's really learning. The questions, What's being taught? What's the goal? How do the lectures and assignments accomplish the goal? become ominous. The removal of grades exposes a huge and frightening vacuum."
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"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."
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"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life."
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"In the pursuit of your dreams, you are your greatest assetand doubt is your greatest liability."
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"Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being."
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"Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
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"Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute."
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"A heart of gold is more precious than a necklace of diamonds."
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"Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery."
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"He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being."
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"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."
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"He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin."
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"Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again."
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"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."
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"We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others and for this purpose we endeavor to shine."
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"In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer."
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"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed."
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"If one Egyptian tailor hadn't cheated on the threads of Joseph's mantle, Potiphar's wife would never have been able to tear it, present it as evidence to Potiphar that Joseph attacked her, gotten him thrown in prison, and let him be in a position to interpret Pharaoh's dream, win his confidence, advise him to store seven years of grain, and save his family, the seventy original Jews from whom Jesus came. We owe our salvation to a cheap Egyptian tailor."
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"When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
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"Attain complete emptiness,Hold fast to stillness.Understanding the ordinary: Mind opens.Mind opening leads to compassion,Compassion to nobility,Nobility to heavenliness,Heavenliness to TAO. TAO endures. Your body dies.There is no danger."
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"A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope."
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"What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it."
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"Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest."
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"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."
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"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"
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"Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."
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"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence."
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"Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them."
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"But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed."
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"When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed."
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"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
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