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Quotes by Philosopher
"Are we the wreck or the ship of God's Word?"
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"Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."
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"Perfume is the scent that pours out of a flower's soul when crushed."
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"Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other."
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"Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing."
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"If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return."
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"A star will shine in the midst of darkness. A flower will bloom in the midst of dirt. A camel will flourish in the midst of doubt. A diamond will form in the midst of pressure. A champion will rise in the midst of hardship."
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"Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is inside to be realized."
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"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
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"What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed."
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"The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent."
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"The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name."
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"Vice can be learnt even without a teacher."
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"People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion."
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"Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."
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"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."
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"If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them."
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"He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary."
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"As for the belief that humanity is mostly good, Secular humanism, when in that alignment, always presumes the existence of a higher power, or some god-like influence on man. Because it then becomes the belief that people are generally good and should be protected from the wiles of religion, as though this dark, vague and ignorant force once fell from the heavens, latched onto the purer hearts and minds of men and women, and, in all its forms, controlled and polluted the whole of human history. He says, 'When we defeat religion, humanity will be free.' But, if he were duly consistent, if he were really at all as secular as he claims, he might as well admit to what is actually an underlying brand of nihilistic cynicism: 'When we defeat humans, humanity will be free."
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"Internet makes you think that you have millions of friends, whereas you are your own friend."
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"Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter."
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"However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once."
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"When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream."
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"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence."
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"Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day."
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"Enlightenment is nothing but waking up from the illusions of your mind."
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"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."
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"Courage lightens distress, hope alleviates grief, doubt aggravates affliction, fear worsens anguish, worry magnifies misery, and faith overthrows despair."
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"Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live."
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"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."
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"A great artist is always before his time or behind it."
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
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"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."
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"How far removed in time must an event be for us to remember it? How far for memory's longing to be no longer able to seize it? Most people have a limit in this respect: what lies too near them in time they cannot remember, nor what lies too remote. I know no limit. What was experienced yesterday, I push back a thousand years in time, and remember as if it were yesterday."
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"You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself."
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"All I know is I'm not a Marxist."
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"At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it."
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"Ist eine Lehre zur Satzung erstarrt, hat sie geendet."
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"Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing."
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"I hope that here in America more and more the ideal of the well-trained and vigorous body will be maintained neck by neck with that of the well-trained and vigorous mind as the two coequal halves of the higher education for men and women alike."
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"It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them."
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"Concha would cry when she found out I was dead, she should have no taste for life for months afterward. But I was still the one who was going to die. I thought of her soft, beautiful eyes. when she looked at me something passed her to me. But I knew it was over: if she looked at me now the look would stay in her eyes, it wouldn't reach me. I was alone."
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"In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch."
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"It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other."
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