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Quotes by Philosopher
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
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"A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life."
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"Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it."
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"To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood."
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"There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free."
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"If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction."
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"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."
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"Russell observes that "the merits of democracy are negative: it does not ensure good government, but it prevents certain evils," such as the evil of a small group of individuals achieving a secure monopoly on political power. The chief peril for the politician, Russell insists, is love of power. And politicians can easily yield to the love of power on the pretense that they are pursuing some absolute good."
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"To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher."
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"Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"
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"Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it."
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"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."
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"Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers."
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"No animal admires another animal."
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"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."
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"To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps."
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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"
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"Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness."
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"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."
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"All forms of fear produce fatigue."
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"There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy."
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"Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late."
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"Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing."
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"I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion."
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"A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents."
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"Wherever I go, I meet myself."
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"We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love."
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"As plants do not grow in the dark, never allow yourself to be in someone's shadow."
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"To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet."
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"Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them."
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"But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement."
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"Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me."
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"Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions."
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"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."
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"When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing."
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"Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do."
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"You don't need armor if your skin is thick. You don't need a sword if your mind is sharp. You don't need a shield if your heart is strong. You don't need a fortress is your soul is secure."
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"When you pray for a rainbow you pray for rain too."
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"As water downs ships but upholds leaves, and as fires burn cities but refines gold, so do life's troubles propel the meek to greatnessand the proud to ruin."
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"You become greater than what you conquer within."
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"Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are."
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"The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere."
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"This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love."
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"My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them."
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"Life presents itself as a continual deception, in small matters as well as in great. If it has promised, it does not keep its word, unless to show how little desirable the desired object was; hence we are deluded now by hope, now by what was hoped for. If it has given, it did so in order to take. The enchantment of distance shows us paradises that vanish like optical illusions, when we have allowed ourselves to be fooled by them. Accordingly, happiness lies always in the future, or else in the past, and the present may be compared to a small dark cloud driven by the wind over the sunny plain; in front of and behind the cloud everything is bright, only it itself always casts a shadow. Consequently, the present is always inadequate, but the future is uncertain, and the past irrecoverable."
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"War is like a fire - if you do not put it out, it will burn itself out."
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"Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous."
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"L'honneste est stable et permanent."
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