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Quotes by Philosopher
"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!"
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"A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion."
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"Understanding is the bridge between two minds, love is the bridge between two souls."
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"Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm."
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"What is the world's problem? The world is still believing the old childish stories! That is the problem! Grow up, world, grow up! Be a bit serious!"
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"Your greatest actions are those that meet another's greatest need."
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"Your mind is a gift. Your heart is a prize. Your soul is a blessing. Your life is a reward."
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"La religion n'est pas un pont entre Dieu et l'homme, c'est une Grande Muraille de Chine entre eux!"
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"Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors!"
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"Love that causes you pain is better than hate that brings you pleasure."
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"You can switch off all the lights, but that won't stop the sun from rising."
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"The world surrenders to an enlightened mind. The stars surrender to a joyful heart. The universe surrenders to a loving soul."
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"If you fall for someone, make sure they're there to catch you."
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"I would rather be average and wise than be extraordinary and imprudent."
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"A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt."
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"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."
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"Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, adherents; and when he uses the expression 'follower' he always explains it in such a way that one perceives that 'imitators' is meant by it, that is not adherents of a teaching but imitators of a life...."
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"Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells."
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"With those who are kindthe sage is kindWith those who are not kindthe sage is also kindbecause the way of Tao is kindness."
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"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour."
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"Your back may be pushed against the wall, but your brain is not."
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"Commit yourself to the possibility that everything you see around you is far less real than God. You want to see the truth "with all your heart, with all you soul, and with all your mind," as Jesus says. This is actually a commitment to joy."
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"One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority."
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"To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style."
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"Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can really be a both/and. For I suspect that the God you insist does not exist is probably a God I also insist does not exist, and perhaps the God I maintain does exist is a God you have never denied."
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"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
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"Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself."
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"An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog."
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"Wisdom knows the way. Understanding sees the way. Passion feels the way. Love goes all the way."
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"And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water."
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"Raising donkeys in the midst of horses will not make them sprinters."
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"Be a provocateur! Provoke people to think! Provoke sleepers to awake! Provoke slaves to revolt against their masters! Provoke everyone to gain control over their fates unchecked! Provoke the lonely to participate the crowds and provoke the crowds to visit the loneliness! Be a provocateur! Provoke people to cross the bridges so that they can see the other side!"
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"A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome."
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"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. The more you look the more you see."
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"It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it."
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"When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it."
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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."
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"Loss of worldly riches is better than loss of heavenly treasures."
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"I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto."
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"Where does the world's zephyr strike from the view which let you to live the eternal moment of love other than in the Divine Light of sight?"
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"There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it were not so completely rational in every way."
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"The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure."
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"Are you comfortable? That's good. But there is somewhere at least someone is uncomfortable! And this should somehow make you uncomfortable too! The world can be a better place only through this way, through thinking others!"
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"It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy."
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"An eagle can mock a lion only because of its wings."
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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