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Quotes by Philosopher
"Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun."
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"My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence."
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"The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman, and there is only one relationship possible: faith."
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"A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain."
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"One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn't care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum."
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"Weekends are life's gift to those who hate their jobs."
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"If an Arab in the desert were suddenly to discover a spring in his tent and so would always be able to have water in abundance how fortunate he would consider himself so too when a man who ... is always turned toward the outside thinking that his happiness lies outside him finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him."
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"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."
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"An action done from duty has its moral worth, not in the purpose to be attained by it, but in the maxim according with which it is decided upon; it depends therefore, not on the realization of the object of action, but solely on the principle of volition in accordance with which, irrespective of all objects of the faculty of desire, the action has been performed."
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"Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment."
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"But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people..."
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"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short."
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"Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern fA1?4hrt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes."
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"But the ones who go posing as moralists are the worst. Cost-free morals. Full of great ways for others to improve without any expense to themselves. There's an ego thing in there, too. They use the morals to make someone else look inferior and that way look better themselves. It doesn't matter what the moral code is -- religious morals, political morals, racist morals, capitalist morals, feminist morals, hippie morals -- they're all the same. The moral codes change but the meanness and the egotism stay the same."
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"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."
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"There can be no forced inspiration."
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"Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool."
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"We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting."
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"To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world."
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"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."
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"The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people."
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"A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body."
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"Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another."
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"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others."
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"On a moonless night a man entered into his neighbour's garden and stole the largest melon he could find and brought it home.He opened it and found it still unripe.Then behold a marvel!The man's conscience woke and smote him with remorse, and he repented having stolen the melon."
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"The heart that gives, gathers."
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"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."
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"Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look."
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"Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known."
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"The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated."
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"Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry."
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"Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."
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"Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair."
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"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"
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"Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions, bad sex is about blocked emotions."
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"After awhile you could get used to anything."
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"In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love."
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"At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone."
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"If records refuse to be broken, shatter them."
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"You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself -in my mind. Painfully conscious."
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"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."
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"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."
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"For this reason the gentleman will employ a man on a distant mission and observe his degree of loyalty, will employ him close at hand and observe his degree of respect. He will hand him troublesome affairs and observe how well he manages them, will suddenly ask his advice and observe how wisely he answers. He will exact some difficult promise from him and see how well he keeps it, turn over funds to him and see with what benevolence he dispenses them, inform him of the danger he is in and note how faithful he is to his duties. He will get him drunk with wine and observe how well he handles himself, place him in mixed company and see what effect beauty has upon him. By applying these nine tests, you may determine who is the unworthy man."
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"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
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"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."
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"For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering."
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