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Quotes by Philosopher
"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants."
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"Life is the sum of all your choices."
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"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
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"Respect elders; protect children. This I do believe. As a young man it is sometimes, in a charitable sense, difficult to shake the sentiment that every elderly person is my grandparent, and every child is my child."
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"Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity."
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"One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it."
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"Nothing ever goes wrong; it only goes different."
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"The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies."
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"The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect & love, for love is divine."
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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."
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"I suspect that 'Kindness and Cruelty' and 'Mercy and Justice' all have secret affairs, as though they rendezvous only within certain sophisticated souls: those who hate being offensive, but love telling the truth."
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"Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do."
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"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."
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"People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them."
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"Let each become all that he was created capable of being."
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"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."
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"A flower blooming in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow."
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"The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build."
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"To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge."
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"There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as 'bigot' or 'zealot'. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the 'open-minded' one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs."
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"The ordinary think inside of the box, the extraordinary think outside of the box, but genius thinks inside, outside, below and above the box."
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"A single star shines brighter than a thousand moons."
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"To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him."
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"Whoever lost the truth has lost him/her self."
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"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
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"You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish."
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"The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials."
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"Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity."
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"If your soul mate comes with too much baggage, help her unpack it."
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"Man will be free only when he frees both himself and all other creatures!"
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"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."
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"Thinking about the bed leaves you horny, but thinking beyond the bed gives you honor, freedom and wisdom."
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"The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program."
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"An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper."
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"Light enters a broken vessel more easily than an intact one."
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"Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant."
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"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
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"Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon."
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"Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines say what this man is before he dies, or what mankind is before it has disappeared."
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"If you chase a butterfly, it will escape; if you feed it, it will come."
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"Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism."
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"For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?"
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"The best dancer is the one who isn't even aware that she is dancing!"
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"Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!"
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"For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
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"We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life."
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