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Quotes by Philosopher
"And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth."
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"The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory."
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"To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities-I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not-that one endures."
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"The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings."
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"When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind."
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"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
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"Invest in your dreams, not in your fears."
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"Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain."
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"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
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"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity."
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"He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations."
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"Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick."
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"Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement."
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"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."
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"To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple."
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"Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why."
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"It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up..."
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"Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them."
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"Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness."
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"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive."
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"Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey."
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"It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth."
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"You shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings ofHecato; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That wasindeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind."
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"There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret."
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"The muffled syllables that Nature speaksFill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,She makes a sweeter music than is heard."
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"The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts."
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"The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her child if someone were to harm it. There is something wrong if the mother never gets angry, it is safe to say that that is the unloving mother."
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"Simpson succeeded in proving that there was no harm in giving anaesthetics to men because God put Adam into a deep sleep when He extracted his rib. But male ecclesiastics remained unconvinced as regards the sufferings of women at any rate in childbirth."
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"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
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"Fortify your mind, bullet proof your heart, strengthen your soul."
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"Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences."
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"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
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"Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value."
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"What hunger is in relation to food zest is in relation to life."
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"The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge."
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"If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy."
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"The professors in the academy say, "Do not make the model more beautiful than she is, and my soul whispers, "O if you could only paint the model as beautiful as she really is."
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"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
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"A rich man is one whose joy is not dependent upon external things."
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"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts."
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"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."
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"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."
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"If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals."
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"Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced, it also imprisons the protected."
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"It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time. Not as though we hate them, but we hate how they don't love us."
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