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Quotes by Philosopher
"Walking on water requires feet of faith."
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"God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners."
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"I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one."
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"Days passing with discovery are the days of real happiness."
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"The world's most beautiful angel is love inside your soul."
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"Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box."
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"Stars do not pull each other down to be more visible, they shine brighter."
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"Exercise your faith and you exorcise your fears."
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"Love hopes. Love helps. Love heals. Love hears."
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"I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe."
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"The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries."
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"Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced."
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"The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany."
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"Much like humans, opinions come in all shapes and forms, but in the end, they are just what they are; and may yet still be categorized in nature. The first you might say is the Indoctrinal, which is, of course, dictated by community and necessity, by the human need for acceptance; secondly, there is the Personal, and this is often dictated by individuality, by the yearning to seem interesting and intelligent, or free, or special; and lastly comes the Emotional. This is most commonly dictated by circumstance and bitterness and excitement. However, rarely do we find the case in which any of these are dictated by reason in the pure state: it is by this we see that at the core of a number of false opinions lies not always misinformation but quite often some issue of the human self."
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"The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy."
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"To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written."
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"If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory."
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"The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison."
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"But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place."
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"Speculation, movements having abandoned rational thought, echo chambers, projection, hypocrisy by little to no self-awareness, bewildering minds brainwashed and manipulative hearts manipulated - one is sure to find these A la people cock-sure in their biased and fanatical, immovable despising of persons. We would all do well to humbly re-think from time to time: 'Whom do I really hate? For what purpose?"
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"He who advances without seeking fame,Who retreats without escaping blame,He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord,The man is a jewel of the Realm."
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"Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love-or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories."
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"The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires."
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"A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man."
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"Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live."
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"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating."
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"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."
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"The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around."
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"A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal..."
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"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."
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"The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not."
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"Being brave in front of faith does not mean to be humble before death."
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"Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths.The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals."
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"We arc the miracle of miracles the great inscrutable mystery of God."
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"A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler."
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"First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of the truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied."
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"I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two."
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"If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!"
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"Unblessed are the hypocrites who are proud of their Christianity but fear the devil."
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"Singing in a storm silences thunder's threats."
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"Let us see rather that like Janus-or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death-religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy..."
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"To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?"
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"Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!"
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"Love is black. Love is white. Love is brown. Love is humanity."
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