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Quotes by Philosopher
"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."
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"I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."
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"The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other."
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"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."
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"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."
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"Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own."
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
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"There are thousands of languages around the world, but love is the most beautiful of them all."
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"Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible."
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"We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together."
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"Building bridges requires greater effort than building walls."
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"A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come."
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"To lead the people walk behind them."
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"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
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"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other."
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"The greater the humiliation, the greater the accolades. The greater the opposition, the greater the triumph. The greater the pain, the greater the blessing. The greater the loss, the greater the gain. The greater the danger, the greater the glory."
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"I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious--for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can see them, they reply: "Oh, but you forget the good God." Apparently they conceive of the Deity add a Peeping Tom, whose omnipotence enables Him to see through bathroom walls, but who is foiled by bathrobes."
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"If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system."
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"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"
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"Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart."
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"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
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"Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come."
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"Architecture in general is frozen music."
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"To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring."
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"Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy."
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"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
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"A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure."
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"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. The world is a reflection of you."
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"Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light."
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"Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated."
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"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
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"An empty mind is not a devil's workshop; it is God's temple."
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"A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet."
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"We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect."
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"I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture."
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"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
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"Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more."
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"As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations tob e induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all, so do you also not wait for clappings of hands and shouts of praise tob e induced to do good, but be a doer of good voluntarily and you will be beloved as much as the sun."
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"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."
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"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
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"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."
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"Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations."
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"The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them."
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"The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions."
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"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."
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"The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage."
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