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Quotes by Philosopher
"If you can walk you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
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"Don't take life too seriously - learn to laugh at yourself."
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"Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that's the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments."
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"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."
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"It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles."
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"The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination."
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"The world is a navy in an empty ocean."
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"Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of 'being godlike'."
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"The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly."
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"The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy."
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"I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore."
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"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
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"Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem, ruse, illegal method, to be determined to conceal the truth, for the sole purpose of accomplishing, despite everything, the communist task'."
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"A tree's nature does not change because the wind blew off a few of its leaves."
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"He who hates easiness in life will always find a though mountain to climb!"
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"A flower can only grow through concrete if it believes in itself, not its obstacles."
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"The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'"
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"To merely blank the page and vaguely assume that 'religion' is the cause of all the world's problems is, on the contrary, an allegation brought about by nothing more than cognitive lethargy; it is when unburied, unpacked, and exposed but a stale conclusion and a misdirection for the one overwhelmed by centuries of sound theology, scholarly thought, and spiritual development."
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"A cheerful music is a powerful light for the shadows of sorrow!"
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"Truth has the biggest mouth in the universe, wisdom has the largest ears, love has the strongest hands, and faith has the ablest feet."
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"We rarely confide in those who are better than we are."
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"The great are like a rubber ball; the harder they hit the ground, the higher they rise."
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"I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way."
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"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."
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"Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard."
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"Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted."
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"Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction."
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"To succeed even once you have to try at least once."
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"Adversity is the door to opportunity."
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"You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling."
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"Chase your dreams and your nightmares will grow tired of chasing you."
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"Roses do not take beauty advice from weeds."
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"People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists."
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"The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this."
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"Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews."
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"A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding."
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"Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth."
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"A flower does not compete with the flower next to it; it just blooms."
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"To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow."
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"She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her."
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"One-night stands were invented to free men from worrying about the size of their penis. And to free women from worrying about the size of their stretch marks."
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"The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness."
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"We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being, but non-being is what we use."
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"Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also. We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us: Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all."
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"Pretense cannot sustain blind power."
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"If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me."
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