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Quotes by Philosopher
"To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world."
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"I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy."
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"In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded."
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"You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices."
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"We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them."
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"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."
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"All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?"
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"I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed by the opinions of their century, their country, and their society. For that very reason, a freethinker or philosopher today would have been nothing but a fanatic at the time of the League.* One must not write for such readers, if one wishes to live beyond one's own age."
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"Language has time as its element, all other media have space as their element."
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
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"Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment."
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"The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure."
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"For what religion has never had sects? Rest assured, Extremism is always the derriA re."
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"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus."
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"The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart."
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"What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others."
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"Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!"
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"A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means."
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"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself."
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"Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction."
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"But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!" He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself."
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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity."
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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
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"If you understand others you are smart.If you understand yourself you are illuminated.If you overcome others you are powerful.If you overcome yourself you have strength.If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.If you can act with vigor, you have a will.If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.If you die without loss, you are eternal."
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"Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter."
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"We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other."
Will,
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"Your educators can only be your liberators."
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"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
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"There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write."
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"Learn to enjoy your own company; it is the best company you will ever have."
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"If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize how far we are from the truth but do not seek it, we will be skeptics. If we both seek the truth and realize how far we are from it, we will be wise."
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"Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence."
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"Total knowledge is annihilation Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel The world sensed only through senses And immune to the knowledge without feeling."
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"The world always says the same thing. And in that patient truth which proceeds from star to star is established a freedom that releases us from ourselves and from others, as in that other patient truth which proceeds from death to death."
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"We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable."
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"A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end."
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"Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world."
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"When you part from your friend, you grieve not;For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, asthe mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain."
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"It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves."
Will,
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