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Quotes by Philosopher
"He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted."
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"Perhaps it is true that, by some definitions, Satan is more religious than God. Many of the particularly proud sinners are deceived into thinking that Satan is anti-religious, that he likes seeing people do immoral things simply because he likes immoral things. Doubtful; Satan likes for people to do immoral things so that he can blame them for doing immoral things. The Father of Lies laughs not with his teammates, but at them."
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"The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger."
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"Don't judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit."
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"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny."
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"All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn."
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"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect."
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"When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important."
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"Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life."
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"I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it."
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"Seeds do not make a sound when growing, but can even reach the sky. Learn from them."
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"Discipline must be without control, without suppression, without any form of fear...It is not discipline first and then freedom; freedom is at the very beginning, not at the end."
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"In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one."
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"Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent."
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"The sun stands out not because it merely shines, but because it shines on everyone."
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"Encourage many, enlighten many, and you will empower many."
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"If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin."
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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"To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence."
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"It is not important what happens where; Where we fall or rise, What we conquer or lose, How big or small we are."
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"All movements go too far."
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"Jealousy says, "Compete with each other". Envy says, "Destroy each other". Empathy says, "Help each other". Love says, "Empower each other."
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"No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends."
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"For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"
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"When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points."
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"All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."
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"Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion."
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"The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced."
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"Gravity is no match against one who is determined to reach the stars."
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"There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits."
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"How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion."
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"I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language."
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"The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder."
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"He confided his deepest secret to you, be always wary of his secret."
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"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show."
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"Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves."
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"We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely."
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"Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them."
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"They are both spectacular, Life and death."
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"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."
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"When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze."
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"Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art-a euphemism-tamed wilderness."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"We are not troubled by things but by the opinion which we have of things."
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