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Quotes by Philosopher
"Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!"
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"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."
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"If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you."
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"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."
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"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."
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"It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character."
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"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
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"Those who would like to become writers attend courses on writing poetry and prose and analyze their own work and that of other writers in development. Teachers teach them that talent is not required and that anyone, who wants to be a writer, can do it if they only master the technique of writing and master the formulas of the genre that they choose. With a little brain storming ideas written on cards, as well as designs and plans on the table, one can even write a novel in a month. There is no secret; the whole secret is in the technique, a little research, and the rest is solved by form, according to a formula, in which it is all nicely wrapped up and packaged. And so, a bestseller is born."
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"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
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"I am a pioneer now, looking onto a promised land."
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"If life - the craving for which is the very essence of our being - were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing."
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"Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself."
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"To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life."
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"A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living."
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"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?"
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"Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!"
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"You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim."
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"To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self."
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"Most men's friendships are too inarticulate."
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"All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear."
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"Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature."
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"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."
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"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."
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"Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting."
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"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
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"Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else."
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"A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!"
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"Danger has a bracing effect."
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"When a child reaches adolescence, there is very apt to be a conflict between parents and child, since the latter considers himself to be by now quite capable of managing his own affairs, while the former are filled with parental solicitude, which is often a disguise for love of power. Parents consider, usually, that the various moral problems which arise in adolescence are peculiarly their province. The opinions they express, however, are so dogmatic that the young seldom confide in them, and usually go their own way in secret."
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"In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines when it comes to the security of their ways and quite possibly the security of mankind. They rely on something that has worked to get man this far without placing ideals blindly driven by emotion first; they have a sure line and they say, 'No.' That, in a sense, is something I find to be highly respectable."
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"All people are enslaved by something."
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"Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die."
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"The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us."
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"Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!"
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"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."
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"Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience."
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"True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper."
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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst."
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"The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later."
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"Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands."
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"Nature reflects the moods of the wizard."
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"A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window."
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"When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!"
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