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Quotes by Philosopher
"Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn."
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"You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology."
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"In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom."
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"In the summer heat the reapers say, "We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair."
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"Do not curse the well that quenches your thirst."
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"Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them."
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"When everybody is planting apples a visionary plants oranges."
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"Heroes are the saints of every nation."
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"The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive."
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"Oh what a valiant faculty is hope."
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"When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; When everything is silent and perfect, There is just perfection and nothing To fill the air."
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"Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are present now."
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"The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak."
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"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."
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"Stand up. Stand out. Stand firm. Stand strong."
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"There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end."
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"The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations."
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
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"The real in us is silent, the acquired is talkative."
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"New prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required but freedom, and indeed the most harmless among all the things to which this term can properly be applied. It is the freedom to make public use of one's reason at every point. But I hear on all sides, 'Do not argue!' The Officer says: 'Do not argue but drill!' The tax collector: 'Do not argue but pay!' The cleric: 'Do not argue but believe!' Only one prince in the world says, 'Argue as much as you will, and about what you will, but obey!' Everywhere there is restriction on freedom."
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"God, who in the beginning was the creator, appears in the end as revenger and rewarder. Deference to such a God admittedly can produce virtuous actions; however, because fear of punishment or hope for reward are their motive, these actions will not be purely moral; on the contrary, the inner essence of such virtue will amount to prudent and carefully calculating egoism."
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"Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night."
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"Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness."
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"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
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"The most reliable friend you have is your shadow."
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"Having money is a way of being free of money."
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"Oblivion cures the old wounds."
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"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."
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"To achieve peace let go of: guilt, anger, and bitterness. To achieve happiness embrace: virtue, faith, and love."
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"No, like worldly contempt, worldly honor is a whirlpool, a play of confused forces, an illusory moment in the flux of opinions. It is a sense-deception, as when a swarm of insects at a distance seem to the eye like one body; a sense-deception, as when the noise of the many at a distance seems to the ear like a single voice."
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"Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
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"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it."
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"Forgive those who hurt you yesterday. Reward those who help you today. Remember those who help you tomorrow."
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"Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation."
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"The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can."
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"I quote others in order to better express my own self."
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"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth."
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"The world's most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife."
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"I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness."
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"I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite."
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"Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked."
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