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Quotes by Philosopher
"A flower, no matter how beautiful, still has to grow in dirt."
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"Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever."
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"The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature."
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"Freedom means the ability to be yourself, without fear."
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"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."
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"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
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"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."
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"The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things."
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"Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator."
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"We do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years. We want to have our thinking confirmed and corroborated by another, whereas to ask a question is to ask it of yourself."
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"When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."
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"A knife is cutlery in one hand and a weapon in another."
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"The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream."
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"Even great men bow before the Sun, it melts hubris into humility."
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"Energy wasted on negative ends."
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"I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man."
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"There is not love of life without despair about life."
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"Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?"
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"The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker."
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"God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it, not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with."
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"Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar."
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"Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked.Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject."
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"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him."
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"As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become."
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"A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is."
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"My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable."
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"Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all."
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"When indeed does the temporal suffering oppress a man most terribly? Is it not when it seems to him that it has no significance, that it neither secures nor gains anything for him? Is it not when the suffering, as the impatient man expresses it, is without meaning or purpose?"
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"Was there someone absent from the table of creation?"
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"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
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"We dream and fight with demons real and imagined."
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"A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us."
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"All cruelty springs from weakness."
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"Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons."
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"A candle is at its brightest in the dark."
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"It is in vain to try and kick the wind."
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"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
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"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."
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"It was your covenant with the devil to exchange your soul for money and fame, so i won't be sorry for your damn f***ing soul, and the devil gat no time to refund what you had already sell, demons don't understand the meaning of sympathy, you should know that already, so, go make some dollar bill in hell, and come back and give me some."
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"The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light!"
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"To "know" reality you cannot stand outside it and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it."
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"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State."
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"Wisdom frees men, even if they are in prison."
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"The future can never lie about the past. In the end, you will see the beginning."
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"Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery."
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"Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit."
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