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Quotes by Philosopher
"L'honneste est stable et permanent."
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"No man undertakes a trade he has not learned even the meanest yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government."
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"With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed."
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"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."
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"The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest."
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"Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."
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"I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength."
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"If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics."
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"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."
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"The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it."
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"The mind is a temple of knowledge, the heart is a temple of understanding, and the soul is a temple of wisdom; together they are a temple of enlightenment."
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"Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them most desirable."
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"You can always challenge a big storm with a little boat and this will only prove how unserious person you are!"
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"If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!"
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"Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself."
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"Old words are reborn with new faces."
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Death is the true inspiring genius, or the muse of philosophy, wherefore Socrates has defined the latter as θανατου μελετη (thanatou meletē—the practice or study of death). Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophise."
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"Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain."
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"It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death."
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"Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic."
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"A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need."
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"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."
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"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."
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"We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors."
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"The best the world has to offer comes from the best you have to give to others."
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"It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy."
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"From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart."
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"Unwritten words grow out of silence."
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"Blessed are those who encounter a mystery in their lives because they obtain a big opportunity to live the great joy of solving puzzles!"
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"Love came, it saw, and it conquered me."
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"Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life."
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"We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness."
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"Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping."
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"Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them."
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"The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."
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"The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn."
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"Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope."
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"The heart smiles when the soul shines."
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"Never underestimate a warrior; the lion in him may be sleeping, but that does not mean he's dead."
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"A leaf has no power to resist when the wind blows, but when life's storms rage, you do."
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"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."
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"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."
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"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
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"Blackmail threats are e-mails from madmen."
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"If you have power, be just; wealth, be generous; knowledge, be wise; titles, be humble; and life, be grateful."
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