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Quotes by Philosopher
"A book is a small library you can fit into your pocket."
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"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."
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"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."
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"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."
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"It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs."
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"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."
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"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad."
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"A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself."
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"An unrewarded value is more valuable than a reward with no value."
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"Continuity in everything is unpleasant."
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"When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief."
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"Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!"
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"Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, 'I am.' We are ontological oxymorons."
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"The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea; And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure; And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not, "I have found the truth, but rather, "I have found a truth. Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths.The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals."
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"When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?"
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"A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety."
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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
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"Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think."
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"Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality!"
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"People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking of becoming converted."
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"He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute."
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"To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still."
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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"Excellence is the best ink with which to make your mark in the world."
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"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
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"The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered."
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"The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity."
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"Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual's world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at lest one genuine feeling. Tuning in to others is a circular flow: you send yourself out toward people; you receive them as they respond to you."
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"The wind likes making jokes!"
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"For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."
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"Listen until you're the smartest. Learn until you're the wisest. Live until you're the merriest. Love until you're the kindest."
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"When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people."
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"We can never succeed in knowing our own self without holidays and anniversaries."
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"It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light."
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"Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life."
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"The trip doesn't exist that can set you beyond the reach of cravings, fits of temper, or fears, so long as you carry the sources of your troubles about with you, those troubles will continue to harass and plague you wherever you wander on land or on sea. Does it surprise you that running away doesn't do you any good? The things you're running away from are with you all the time."
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"Through prayer, religion insists, things which cannot be realized in any other manner come about: energy which but for prayer would be bound is by prayer set free and operates in some part, be it objective or subjective, of the world of facts."
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"From everything, nothing looks to nothing."
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"Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen."
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"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
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"Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic."
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"Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live."
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"First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you'd better think twice before devouring your misery."
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"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."
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