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Quotes by Philosopher
"Soulmates don't choose each other, fate chooses them."
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"The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long."
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"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."
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"There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is that of knowing whether two and two do make four."
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"Ama bardağımın dibinde biram alıksa, aynada koyu renkli lekeler varsa, fazlalıksam; en içten ve en katı acımsız acım, ayıbalı gibi, hem bir yaşayın et hem gepgeni bir deriyle ve insanın içine dokunan ıslak, ama katılık dolu gözlerle sarılıp hantallaşıyorsa bu benim kabahatim mi?"
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"There is no longer waiting for anyone, but for death."
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"Now she has power and passion and the struggle has significance for me-let the momentary consequences be what they may. Suppose that in her pride she becomes giddy, suppose that she does break with me-all right! -she has her freedom, but she will still belong to me. That the engagement should bind her is silly-I want to possess her only in her freedom."
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"How will the remaining portion of the community like to have the amusements that shall be permitted to them regulated by the religious and moral sentiments of the stricter Calvinists and Methodists? Would they not, with considerable peremptoriness, desire these intrusively pious members of society to mind their own business? This is precisely what should be said to every government and every public, who have the pretension that no person shall enjoy any pleasure which they think wrong."
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"Bricks on your back are easier to carry than pebbles on your soul."
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"Storms pass by on their way to get all the colors needed to paint your rainbow."
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"The tree that stands to the tempest is strong; the tree that refuses to bend, the strongest."
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"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
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"In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps."
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"There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists."
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"Great and small suffer the same mishaps."
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"Success gives in to those who truly desire her."
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"We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt. 7:7)."
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"Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man."
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"We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us."
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"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings."
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"Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence. Silence put together by thought is stagnation, is dead, but the silence that comes when thought has understood its own beginning, the nature of itself, understood how all thought is never free but always old - this silence is meditation in which the meditator is entirely absent, for the mind has emptied itself of the past."
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"What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth."
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"The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others."
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"I have extremely little courage myself, much less than you; but I have found that whenever, after a long struggle, I have screwed my courage up to do something I always felt much freer & happy after it."
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"Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life."
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"There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness. Is this not what is actually taking place all over the world? Our present education is geared to industrialization and war, its principal aim being to develop efficiency; and we are caught in this machine of ruthless competition and mutual destruction. If education leads to war, if it teaches us to destroy or be destroyed, has it not utterly failed?"
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"But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you."
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"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."
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"Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world."
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"Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the toper, the glass which souses him and puts the finishing touch on his drunkenness. Each pleasure reserves to the end the greatest delights which it contains. Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not yet reached the abrupt decline."
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"True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior."
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"Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good."
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"There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it."
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"The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image."
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"Men of Athens, I honor and I love you, but I will obey the god rather than you and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to exhort you and in my usual way to point out to any one of you whom I happen to meet."
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"To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations."
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"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
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"Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor."
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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
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"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."
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"Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves."
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"The whole banquet is in the first spoonful."
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"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."
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"Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind's mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it."
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"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."
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"We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their deliberate acts of choice; and these are determined by the end that inspires them."
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