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Quotes by Philosopher
"One must care about a world one will not see."
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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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"Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything."
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"If the path you walk is the right one, then the big question comes: How many people have you directed to that path?"
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"A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation."
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"The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world."
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"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds."
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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."
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"With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair."
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"Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows, the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing."
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"If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying."
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"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."
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"Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships."
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"The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people."
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"Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience."
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"An ugly jar full of water is worth more than an empty beautiful one in the desert."
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"Harsh winters precede pleasant springs."
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"It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not."
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"Love should not be a dependency; it should be a sharing."
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"Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal."
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"The Master said, "I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or onewho hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue, would esteemnothing above it. He who hated what is not virtuous, would practicevirtue in such a way that he would not allow anything that is notvirtuous to approach his person."Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I havenot seen the case in which his strength would be insufficient."Should there possibly be any such case, I have not seen it."
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"All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity."
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"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live."
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"How closely flattery resembles friendship! It not only apes friendship, but outdoes it, passing it in the race; with wide-open and indulgent ears it is welcomed and sinks to the depths of the heart, and it is pleasing precisely wherein it does harm."
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"If you wish to live a life free from sorrow think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened."
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"One is never afraid of the unknown one is afraid of the known coming to an end."
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"If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing."
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"To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together."
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"Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso, From DalA and El Greco, From the gloomy 'View of Toledo.' He was born before Cervantes."
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"From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity, we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs."
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"But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also."
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"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
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"To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!"
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"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."
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"Just because everyone is behaving like a clown, it doesn't mean you have to join the circus."
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"Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim."
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"Physicsis the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws."
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"There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics."
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"I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist."
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"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."
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"Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed."
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"The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole."
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"To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy."
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"There is no need returning anger to those who made your past horrible, do not think of making them feel bitter, maybe a help from you can just make them ashame and miserable, and can probably change their attitude."
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"Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are."
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