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Quotes by Philosopher
"An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant."
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"The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct?"
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"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
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"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."
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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
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"To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget. Mirabeau had no memory for insults and vile actions done to him and was unable to forgive simply because he - forgot. Such a man shakes off with a single shrug the many vermin that eat deep into others."
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"They read a little bit, write a little, and especially agree with themselves on important moves, important information, important awards, important writers that they plan to enthrone forever in history through a variety of memberships and numerous prizes awarded under the influence of top bureaucrats who know everything, not only about literature, but also about secret conspiracies, the Masons that lurk in every corner to crucify someone, steal someone's soul and sell it to an unknown devil, about whom only the chief bureaucrat possesses secret knowledge that he doesn't share; about history, ghosts, missing continents; about who said what to whom in confidence."
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"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
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"You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic."
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"It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway."
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"You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed."
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"We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered."
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"Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited."
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"Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability."
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"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
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"The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death."
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"Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin."
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"To gain height, lose all your tall friends."
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"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
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"Law is born from despair of human nature."
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"From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer."
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"The sun and stars never apologize for shinning, neither should you."
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"Smiling through confusion is courage. Smiling through tears is strength. Smiling through pain is power. Smiling through tragedy is greatness."
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"If you feed a bird, you don't have to force it to come to you."
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"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."
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"If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"
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"A fearless person lives fully, a fearful person just exists."
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"It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise."
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"The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine."
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"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."
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"It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual."
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"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice."
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"Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."
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"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."
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"What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love."
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"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."
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"A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind."
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"The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable."
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"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play."
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."
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"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."
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"Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society."
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"How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them."
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