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Quotes by Philosopher
"Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world."
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"What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite."
62
"If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported."
62
"When you are no longer seeking, you have arrived."
62
"Beauty is unbearable drives us to despair offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
62
"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with."
62
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."
62
"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?"
62
"The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering from positive evil."
62
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
61
"I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians."
61
"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."
61
"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."
61
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
61
"When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks."
Love,
61
"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."
61
"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass."
61
"Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate."
61
"In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king."
61
"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples."
May,
61
"Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical."
61
"Humanity is quite a unique species, since it is the only one with the means to wipe itself out."
61
"Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past."
61
"The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification."
61
"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."
61
"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character."
61
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
61
"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained."
61
"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
61
"To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory, to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat."
61
"Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy."
61
"So let those people go on weeping and wailing whose self-indulgent minds have been weakened by long prosperity, let them collapse at the threat of the most trivial injuries; but let those who have spent all their years suffering disasters endure the worst afflictions with a brave and resolute staunchness. Everlasting misfortune does have one blessing, that it ends up by toughening those whom it constantly afflicts."
61
"In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods."
61
"A ship that sails without a compass will get lost at sea."
61
"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
61
"Don't be a slave to expectations - yours or others'."
61
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
61
"Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings."
61
"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."
61
"It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy."
61
"Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy."
61
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
61
"To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration."
61
"Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people."
61
"What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?"
61
"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."
60
"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
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