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Quotes by Philosopher
"Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded."
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"Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling."
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"Do not hire those who are incapable. Do not fire those who are capable. A small, devoted army is greaterthan a large, indifferent one."
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"It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time."
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"There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends but he joyeth the more and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends but he grieveth the less."
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"No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our commentaries on the Bible. Nothing is more formidable and unconquerable than the Church Militant. But nothing is more sleepy and sheepish than the Church Mumbling. Christ's words roused His enemies to murder and His friends to martyrdom. Our words reassure both sides and send them to sleep. He put the world in a daze. We put it in a doze."
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"She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?""This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal."
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"Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."
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"Newton invented a new form of reason. He expanded reason to handle infinitesimal changes and I think what is needed now is a similar expansion of reason to handle technological ugliness. The trouble is that the expansion has to be made at the roots, not at the branches, and that's what makes it hard to see."
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"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
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"He was one of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good feelings. What little he told of his personal life vouched for acts of kindness and a capacity for affection that no one in our times dares own to."
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"Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral."
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"Life begins at the edge of your fears."
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"We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller."
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"Who taught you all this, doctor?"The reply came promptly:"Suffering."
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"Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable."
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"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
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"So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is-other people!"
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"It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult."
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"Strength comes from ignoring your critics. Power comes from mastering your fears. Fortitude comes from wrestling your opponents. Superiority comes from overcoming your losses. Greatness comes from conquering your weaknesses."
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"I tell you as well as myself: what we see with our own eyes is nothing other than a cloud concealing what we should perceive with our inner sight, while what we listen to with our ears is merely a ringing sound disturbing what we should understand with our hearts. When we see a man being taken to prion by a police officer let us not hasten to assume he is a wrong-doer. When we see a corpse, and a man standing beside it with bloodstained hands, let us not conclude that this is a victim and his assassin. When we hear one man singing and another lamenting, let us ascertain which one of the two is truly happy."
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"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
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"Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction."
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"The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue."
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"It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen."
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"It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself."
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"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread."
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"One is punished most for one's virtues."
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"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
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"The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude."
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"For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction."
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"The final reward of the dead - to die no more."
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"Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims."
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"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
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"The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise."
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"When we see an innocent child, this is an ordinary thing; but when we see an innocent adult, this is an extraordinary thing!"
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"Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible."
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"It is not certain that everything is uncertain."
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"May be you have already reached your target, but if you don't know this, you will move away from your target!"
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"It is not possible to express the most precious insights, To see all that craves to be seen, To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe, To learn all that needs to be learned, To live without dying, And I am sad about it.But I livedAnd I am happy about that."
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"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
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"The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when aroused, from being harmful to himself and his associates...Moreover, since politicians are divided into rival groups, they aim at similarly dividing the nation, unless they have the good fortune to unite it in war against some other nation."
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"Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!"
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