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Quotes by Philosopher
"Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality."
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"A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live."
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"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else."
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"Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow."
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"We need a tremendous amount of energy and we dissipate it through fear but when there is this energy which comes from throwing off every form of fear, that energy itself produces the radical inward revolution."
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"I have a yearning for my beautiful country, and I love its people because of their misery. But if my people rose, simulated by plunder and motivated by what they call "patriotic spirit" to murder, and invaded my neighbour's country, then upon the committing of any human atrocity I would hate my people and my country."
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"It is easier to forgive yourself of a thousand misdeeds than to forgive your enemy of one."
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"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
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"I only know that I know nothing."
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"The soul that has no established aim loses itself."
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"If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear."
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"What our Heavenly Father wants us to do about our spiritual failures is like what our earthly father wants us to do about our earthly failures. When we fall off the horse, or the bike, or the high road to Heaven, we must simply climb on again as soon as we are aware of the fact that we have fallen off, rather than sitting there stewing in self-pity or self-hatred."
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"He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew."
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"No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will be no better or worse, No big and small, no rewards, no punishment, No guilt, no judges, no hierarchies; Only silent equality."
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"Clothes are a homeless man's home."
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"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."
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"If the world stands in between a man and the woman he loves, he will set out to conquer it."
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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him."
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"Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream."
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"If you are unmotivated to succeed, no one can help you. If you are determined to succeed, no one can stop you."
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"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false."
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"Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice."
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"With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved."
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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
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"All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly."
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"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man."
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"Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing."
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"For a game, you don't need a teacher."
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"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean - or what we really think."
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"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar."
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"The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths!"
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"Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas."
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"The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it."
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"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
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"The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists, indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately."
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"Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are."
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"You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you."
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"You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work."
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"Water is gold in the desert."
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"Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self."
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"The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased."
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