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Quotes by Philosopher
"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
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"Knowledge is the switch that turns on the light, wisdom is the battery that powers it."
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"At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded."
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"Genius is among other minds what the carbuncle is among gemstones, it radiates its own light while the others only reflect what they receive."
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"Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction."
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"To learn how to swim, observe fish; how to hunt, observe lions; how to work, observe bees, and how to live, observe sages."
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"Stop thinking, and end your problems."
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"It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life."
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"Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear."
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"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
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"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
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"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."
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"After your death, you will be what you were before your birth."
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"For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them."
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"Necessity who is the mother of our invention."
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"If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations."
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"The present is the living sum-total of the whole past."
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"Great souls carry great burdens."
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"What you endured was a sign of what you would become."
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"I travel, always arriving in the same place."
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"Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him."
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"But there's a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought. It is not recognizable by thought nor can it be utilized by thought. Thought cannot formulate it. But there's a sacredness, untouched by any symbol or word. It is not communicable. It is a fact."
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."
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"To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired."
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"Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal."
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"When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the action itself; if you are, why fear those who wrongly censure you?"
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"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
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"Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see."
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"Tell me something only you know and make a new friend."
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"Practice yourself in little things and thence proceed to greater."
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"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
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"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
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"But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body."
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"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."
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"Each time a flower blooms, the world is reminded that there is beauty in new beginnings."
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"The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon and is later found false, the latter rejects sound answers altogether and hashes itself useless."
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"...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement."
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"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."
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"Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering."
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"We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here."
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"What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul."
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"Neruda had his first dream, First meeting with the Moon and the Sun In sunny La Mancha, hiding in his heart,Where he learned how to sing like a nightingale."
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"The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is this: he expects all advantage and all harm from himself."
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"LoveEmbracing Tao, you become embraced.Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.Clearing your vision, you become clear.Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.Opening your heart, you become accepted.Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.Bearing and nurturing,Creating but not owning,Giving without demanding,Controlling without authority,This is love."
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"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."
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