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Quotes by Philosopher
"It is wealth to be content."
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"Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past."
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"T-TrustE-EnthusiasmA-AdjustmentM-Memories."
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"Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out."
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"Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle ofsoftness overcoming hardness."
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"The only ways of enquiry that lead to knowledge... the one way assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not to be, is the trustworthy path, for truth attends it."
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"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."
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"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care."
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"In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel."
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"Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food."
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"To belittle, you have to be little."
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"There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less."
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"If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law."
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"To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement."
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"Die Wahrheit hat keinen Erfolg."
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"He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age."
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"Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning."
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"Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects."
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"Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover."
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"Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear."
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"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
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"I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould. I have seen a face whose sheen I could look through to the ugliness beneath, and a face whose sheen I had to lift to see how beautiful it was. I have seen an old face much lined with nothing, and a smooth face in which all things were graven. I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath."
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"Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?"
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"Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations."
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"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."
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"No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils."
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"Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat."
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"A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state."
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"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."
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"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
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"A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach."
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"With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection."
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"The mind is a god, it creates its own reality."
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"Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!"
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"You get what you work for, not what you think you deserve."
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"If I follow a particular method of knowing myself, then I shall have the result which that system necessitates; but the result will obviously not be the understanding of myself."
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"God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first."
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"Love knows the way because love is the way."
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"The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable."
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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."
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"One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting theStolen equality of the weak is nobler than aCentury filled with greed and usurpation."
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"Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate."
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"In times of war, as in life, surround yourself with people of value, virtue and high morals, because it's always better to lose, perish and vanish in glory than to live in shame."
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"If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!"
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"One must care about a world one will not see."
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"This forest silence improves anyone."
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"Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
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"Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."
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