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Quotes by Philosopher
"We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl of time, the sea that has always been within us flows on our face."
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"So we are steaming along without any landmark, we can't gauge our speed. We are making progress and yet nothing is changing. It's not navigation but dreaming."
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"The heart's will is greater than the hand's strength."
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"When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, "My life has just begun."
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"It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body, for it is better to die than to live badly."
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"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."
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"Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women."
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"A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality that thought can never reach."
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"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest."
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"Speaking generally, however, when you interact with someone else, you are doing outer work (physical time, play time, connecting time) ... as many sociologists have pointed out, this area of life used to dominate everyday existence, at a time when families sat around the fire of an evening and ate every meal together. That's no longer true. Families today are often loose constellations. Contact is intermittent and rushed. everyone has their own space. Activity is scattered all around town, not confined to the home. Cars have made everyone mobile, but central heating may be the most powerful force in shaping modern society."
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"Nothing is part of everything."
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"The poetry of love is the greatest gift God gave us."
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"Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy."
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"Marry, and you will regret it; don't marry, you will also regret it; marry or don't marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world's foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world's foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it. Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don't hang yourself, you'll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy."
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"Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have."
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"It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results."
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"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
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"Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity."
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"The worst evil is that most subtle evil. It is the evil that is merely 'base' which is more evil than evil itself. For it is the one closest to righteousness, the one indistinguishable and doused in virtue."
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"When all is lost, there is still a memory."
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"Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility."
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"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
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"Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes."
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"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself."
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"When the head tries to rule the heart, emotion poisons it."
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"The heavens shine on us, but God shines in us."
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"Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me."
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"Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty."
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"Kind words produce their images on men's souls."
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"What you gain here, you lose on the other side."
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"I believed in the faith of faith without acknowledging his quality of being an absolute truth."
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"How much soul can include the self-salvation of sin?"
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"Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it."
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"To the knights of faith nobody believes."
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"It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity."
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"It is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be."
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"Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace."
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"Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you."
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"If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world."
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"Every thought about death takes a moment of life away."
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"But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade."
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