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Quotes by Philosopher
"I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible the world has written its own."
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"When destiny is calling even the deaf can hear him."
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"Don't try to make everyone happy, you can't. The only ones who try are clowns."
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"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
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"The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth."
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"The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well."
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"The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours."
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"Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away."
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"I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules."
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"Anger has strength, hate has might, but love has power."
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"Knowledge, teach. Wisdom, acquire. Understanding, share. Love, spread."
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"Women are like shadows; when you chase them, they run from you; when you run from them, they chase you."
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"Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind, as are the legacies of those who flow with them."
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"A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies."
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"Wisdom is a sharp chisel to carve out your future."
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"It is impossible for light to bow before darkness."
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"And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive."
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"Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither."
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"To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect."
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"It is impossible for a star to shine and not get noticed, even in the dark."
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"Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves."
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"The mind shrinks or expands in proportion to one's wisdom; the heart, in proportion to one's courage; and the soul, in proportion to one's love."
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"An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast."
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"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."
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"You are not here to be somebody's shadow; you are here to be the light."
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"Be knowledgeable. Be logical. Be affable. Be trustable."
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"There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman."
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"Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island."
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"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."
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"It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self."
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"I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly."
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"Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression."
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"The greatest gift you can open is your arms to someone in need."
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"Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises!"
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"Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see."
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"There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love."
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"...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I've seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn't want to be helped, and I hadn't time to work up interest for something that didn't interest me."
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"You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment."
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"In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture."
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"You are the sky, everything else is just passing clouds."
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"Stumbling towards greatness is better than sprinting towards mediocrity."
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"Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while."
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"One who forgives his enemies conquers them, one who loves his enemies conquers himself."
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"Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom."
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"The moment you are wrapped up in the world, you become blind to the things wrapped in the mysteries."
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"With strength you can move rocks. With faith you can move mountains. With love you can move the world."
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"The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity."
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"Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert."
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"Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much the entire world."
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"Love does not wear out the heart, even if it weighs a thousand tons."
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