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Quotes by Philosopher
"Falling in love can be likened to someone, falling from a high building. The possible result will be unconsciousness if not death. Take it that, anybody that falls in love is either unconscious or dead."
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"Without pleasure there is no sight or measure."
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"If Aliosha had come to the conclusion that neither God nor immortality existed, he would immediately have become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not only a question of the working classes; it is above all, in its contemporary incarnation, a question of atheism, a question of the tower of Babel, which is constructed without God's help, not to reach to the heavens, but to bring the heavens down to earth."
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"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."
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"Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge."
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"Of how much light will my destiny's eyes have to become aware until it will come true in death?"
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"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision and nothing is so futile."
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"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
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"To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting."
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"I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself."
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"So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games."
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"We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on 'good' rather than on 'time'...."
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"I wouldn't think that God is quite as much concerned with whether or not one actually sins as He is with whether or not in one's heart one genuinely wants to turn from sin; and therefore, continues working passionately with Him in doing so. It is not some pleasure of God's, as some might imagine, to stand around critiquing, arms crossed, holding a whip. I suppose that when someone weeps over their sins, He extends His hands; He wants them to lift their head and embrace Him and the mercy He's willing to show. But when someone is proud of their sins, He delivers His justice swiftly and righteously. Sin does not intimidate God - although He takes it very seriously - it does no real harm to Him whatsoever, only to the sinner and to other people: and He loves people."
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"We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see its like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences."
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"There are no mighty mountains for the universe, because there are no mountains for the universe, no rivers, no sun and no clouds! There is only universe for the universe, just a single entity!"
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"Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means."
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"Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies."
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"Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself."
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"For Fate/ The willing leads, the unwilling drags along."
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"If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt."
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"Speak not of peoples and laws andKingdoms, for the whole earth isMy birthplace and all humans areMy brothers."
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"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."
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"No untroubled day has ever dawned for me."
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"Everything passes through the eyes of top bureaucrats who closely watch to ensure that no intruder can enter their ranks and disrupt the order and arrangement of values in which everything is predetermined and where everyone knows their place, everyone's potential, talent and position in history."
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"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."
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"My decision isn't as important as the freedom to decide. And my income isn't as important as what I do to earn it."
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"Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position."
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"Better a good journalist than a poor assassin."
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"I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We see about us practically no people who do not complain about their existence; many even deprive themselves of it to the extent they are able, and the combination of divine and human laws is hardly enough to stop this disorder."
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"3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
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"We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets."
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"Instead of thinking outside the box,Get rid of the box."
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"They are not insincere when they say that they believe these things. They do believe them, as people believe what they have always heard lauded and never discussed. But in the sense of that living belief which regulates conduct, they believe these doctrines just up to the point to which it is usual to act upon them."
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"The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles."
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"Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else!"
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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
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"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."
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"Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day."
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"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."
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"No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth."
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"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."
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"Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."
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"A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens."
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"It is wealth to be content."
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