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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you."
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"Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself."
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"I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am."
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"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
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"It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and--what will perhaps make you wonder more--it takes the whole of life to learn how to die."
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"We will never be more than we are meant to be!"
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"Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women."
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"Don't strive to be superior to others, strive to be better than you were yesterday."
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"Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life."
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"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
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"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
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"A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude."
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"The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things."
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"Everyone take his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclosed deeply within me while my laughter entertains everyone. If I see someone suffer I give him my sympathy, console him as best I can, and listen to him calmly when he assures me that I am fortunate. If only I can keep this up until the day I die I shall have had my revenge."
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"If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!"
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"Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable - that is, human - men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life."
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"In much of your talking thinking is half murdered."
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"The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it."
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"What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery."
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"The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a long abode and produces, in my opinion, the sole true pleasures of human life; all other pleasures in comparison sleep; towards the end, like a vapor that still mounts upward, it arrives at the throat, where it makes its final residence, and concludes the progress."
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"He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time."
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"Learn from a river; obstacles may force it to change its course, but never its destination."
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"Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'."
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"The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history."
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"The heterosexual emotions of young children can find a natural, wholesome and innocent outlet with other children; in this form they are a part of play, and like all play, they afford a preparation for adult activities."
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"Religion does not belong to God it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!"
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"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."
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"There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity."
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"In its practical purpose the footpath of freedom is the only one on which it is possible to make use of reason in our conduct. Hence it is as impossible for the subtlest philosophy as for the commonest reasoning to argue freedom away."
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"Time flows away like the water in the river."
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"Let them judge you, but remain virtuous. Let them criticize you, but remain wise. Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional."
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"Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious."
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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."
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"Although personal calling I sense,Who am I? even if I am, I don't know."
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"Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, then enthusiastically to keep the ship afloat by pumping and not to seek the harbor--that is the metaphor for having faith."
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"To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man."
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"Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge."
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"Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break."
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"The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation."
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"Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn't contribute to either, the good or evil."
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"If you run a hundred miles in your heart, you are ready to run a hundred miles on your feet."
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"I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw only a masterpiece of an original painting and someone threw a splash of red across it saying that their version is better, you would be offended too."
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"Do not ever go out of yourself because you will get lost even from your life."
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"The grand prize in us versus them is that somebody gets to feel special for a while. The grand prize in the game of unity is that everyone gets to feel special forever."
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"I take from the poor and give to the rich. They just happen to be the same individuals. Poor and stupid before they learn from me and pay with their time and money, but rich and successful after they do. The truly miserable, however, don't know how poor they are, and I want nothing from them."
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"For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself."
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