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Quotes by Philosopher
"It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up."
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"There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed."
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"I have realized that we all have plague, and I have lost my peace. And today I am still trying to find it; still trying to understand all those others and not to be the enemy of anyone. I only know that one must do what one can to cease being plague-stricken, and that's the only way in which we can hope for some peace or, failing that, a decent death. This, and only this, can bring relief to men and, if not save them, at least do them the least harm possible and even, sometimes, a little good."
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"Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage."
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"An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation."
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"Life is temporal. Time is fleeting. God is permanent. Eternity is enduring."
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"When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the uncertainty of events creates fear and doubt."
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"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat."
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"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream."
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"Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world."
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"Learn from the Sun, on account of its warmth it doesn't need to beg anyone to esteem it"
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"I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church....Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink."
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"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise."
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"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all."
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"The many are more incorruptible than the few, they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little."
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"Love is almost never simple."
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"Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes."
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"God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think."
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"Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry's use of minors."
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"A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth."
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"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
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"People don't realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart. J. Krishnamurti. "The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices."
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"Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death."
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"Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself."
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"Knowledge is the seed, intelligence is the stem, understanding is the branch, and wisdom is the fruit."
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"Make your mark in the world with divine ink: love."
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"True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them."
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"There is scarcely any passion without struggle."
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"Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order."
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"And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote or will write either a political or other work, in meter or out of meter, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?' What is good, PhASdrus, and what is not good...need we ask anyone to tell us these things?"
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"Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from severalpieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to myown governing method, ignorance."
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"A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?"
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"The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop."
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"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."
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"With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in a day. But yet I treasure in my memory Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease, And the dear honour of your amity; For these once mine, my life is rich with these. And I scarce know which part may greater be,-- What I keep of you, or you rob from me."
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"To have to combat one's instincts-that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one."
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"To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness."
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"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."
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"You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook."
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"Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it."
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"Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought, underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation."
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"The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes a thousand."
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"Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not about Christ, it's not about life."
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"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."
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"When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention)."
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"Stars shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them."
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