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Quotes by Philosopher
"The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion."
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"Spirituality is not about perfection; it is about wholeness."
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"The cheapest thing in your life is money; the most expensive, love."
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"All the moralities tell them that it is the duty of women, and all the current sentimentalities that it is their nature, to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but their affections. - The Subjection of Women."
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"The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened."
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"Get close to grass and you'll see a star."
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"The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough."
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"Nice guys finish last but bad guys don't finish at all."
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"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."
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"Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law."
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"Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture!"
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"The follower aspires with all his strength to be what he admires. And then, remarkably enough, even though he lives amongst a 'Christian people,' he incurs the same peril as he did when it was dangerous to openly confess Christ. And because of the follower's life, it will become evident who the admirers are, for the admirers will become agitated with him. Even these words will disturb many - but then they must likewise belong to the admirers."
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"Judgment is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all? To prohibit what they think pernicious is not claiming exemption from error, but fulfilling the duty incumbent on them, although fallible, of acting on their conscientious conviction. If we were never to act on our opinions, because those opinions 'lay be wrong, we should leave all our interests uncared for, and all our duties unperformed. An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular."
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"If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent money, such as the butcher, the baker, and the bootlegger. But if he spends it (let us say) upon laying down rails for surface cars in some place where surface cars turn out not to be wanted, he has diverted a mass of labor into channels where it gives pleasure to no one. Nevertheless, when he becomes poor through failure of his investment he will be regarded as a victim of undeserved misfortune, whereas the gay spendthrift, who has spent his money philanthropically, will be despised as a fool and a frivolous person."
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"Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect."
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"If your heart truly stops when she looks at you, how come you are still alive?"
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"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."
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"Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality, he just never connected with you at the intersection."
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"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world."
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"Plains watch the mountains and mountains watch the plains. Through looks, everything touches everything, even though they have many kilometers or even light years between them!"
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"You only get one chance to make a first impression.' Ah, whatever!!! Who said you get three chances to make the second impression?!!"
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"Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously."
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"To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer."
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"The blind can see love, the deaf can hear love, the mute can express love, and the disabled can carry love."
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"Pray for your needs, not your greed."
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"Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control."
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"The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty, the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge. Justice is a mean between these two extremes. People value it not because it is a good but because they are too weak to do injustice with impunity."
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"In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion."
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"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."
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"Originality is the death of mediocrity."
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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
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"People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation."
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"If you run from technology, it will chase you."
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"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."
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"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will."
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"If you invite a snake into your home, do not be surprised if it bites you."
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"It is at night, not in the day, that stars shine the brightest."
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"I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself."
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"In greatness, life and death merge."
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"There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed."
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"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."
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"Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory."
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"Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat."
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"The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof."
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"Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!"
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