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Quotes by Philosopher
"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence."
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"There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands."
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"Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul."
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"Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us."
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"Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of unhappiness."
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"If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with."
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"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
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"False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit."
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"When we look at the old photographs, we always ask three main questions: Are they alive? If they are, where are they? And finally, what is their life story? Photography is an art of creating many questions in the mind of the viewer!"
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"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious."
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"The great are like the sun, even when hidden from the world they still shine."
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"Fear not the phantom of death, My Countrymen, for his greatnessAnd mercy will refuse to approachYour smallness; and dread not the Dagger, for it will decline to beLodged in your shallow hearts."
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"To be ordinary, be normal; to be original, be different; to be valuable, be unique; to be priceless, be yourself."
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"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."
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"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."
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"Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others."
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"Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way."
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"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams."
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"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one."
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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
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"Through memory to knowledge on the way to stars that are stepping down to the stuffy rooms of modern bureaucrats, illuminating their ceilings, their horizons where everything is easily resolved by the piles of paper and recipes for how to live, create, run, eat, breathe, learn how to love, how to make love, how to sleep, how to dream, how happiness is achieved under the artificial stars of the new sky that emerged from the bureaucratic rooms of aspiring and impotent minds, unable to love, even though they had all their life to learn what they preach."
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"It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong."
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"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."
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"How would this world be if there was not God? The answer is simple: it would become itself God."
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"If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God."
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"To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious zealots - it's biblically accurate and a prophecy fulfilled. The old smoke screen is one of Satan's favorite tricks. He conceals the authentic. He has a persistent strategy of targeting those who remind him of Christianity because he fears those who remind him of Christ."
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"Many writers were better before they became famous."
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"Excellence is the key that opens successes' door."
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"This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind alley, though. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything."
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"The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the atmosphere or on a distant star. Therefore science is one form of electromagnetism that spends it time studying another form science is god explaining god through a human nervous system isn't spirituality the same thing?"
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"A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you."
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"We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use."
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"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."
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"A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful."
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"Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away."
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"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable, what it is or what it means can never be said."
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"A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame."
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"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."
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"One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'."
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"Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends."
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"Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?"
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"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."
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"You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.This is but half the truth.You are also as strong as your strongest link.To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the oceanby the frailty of its foam.To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy."
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"Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree."
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"Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate."
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