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Quotes by Philosopher
"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
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"The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind."
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"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."
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"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."
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"Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires."
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"Very often inertia, selfishness, and vanity play the greatest role in our trust in others; inertia when we prefer to trust somebody else, in order not to investigate, be vigilant, or act ourselves; selfishness when the desire to speak about our own affairs tempts us to confide in someone else; vanity when it concers something that we are proud of."
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"As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them."
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"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion."
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"Gaiety alone as it were is the hard cash of happiness everything else is just a promissory note."
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"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."
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"Dream with all of your mind. Work with all of your heart. Persevere with all of your strength. Succeed with all of your soul."
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"Man can alter his life by altering his thinking."
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"On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
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"Friends ask you questions, enemies question you."
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"To live a little, love a little. To live a lot, love a lot."
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"Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again."
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"Marquez was not born in Colombia.He was born in Macondo, And his Macondo is his La Mancha."
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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
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"One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility."
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
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"He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared."
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"Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts."
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"The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left for you, poor human murderers, to do? To kill your victims? But they already had the seed of death in them; all you could do was to hasten its fruition by a year or two."
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
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"Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning."
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"Biography is the only true history."
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"Pray greatly. Pray gladly. Pray graciously. Pray gallantly."
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"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
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"From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn."
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"So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?""Yes, naturally."
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"The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it."
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"You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept."
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"He suffered much, but he understood the mystery of pain: he knew that tears make all things shine."
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"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further."
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"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."
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"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."
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"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
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"Seeds are proof that God puts within you what is supposed to enrich the world around you."
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"I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time."
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"To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties."
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"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has."
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"If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them."
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"If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men."
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"Base souls have no faith in great individuals."
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