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Quotes by Philosopher
"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."
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"It is lightning that strikes, not thunder."
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"There are so many futures still to dawn!"
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"The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved."
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"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."
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"The price of greatness is exorbitant, only those rich in courage can afford it."
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
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"The entrance to the world is inside your mind, the entrance to the universe is inside your soul."
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"Science is knowledge meeting humility meeting curiosity: ever-evolving, always learning. Atheism is often but knowledge meeting arrogance: a masquerade under the wing of the beauty of science. Religion is infamously a weight under the one wing; then under the other is atheism, the championed masquerade."
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"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty."
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"You cannot walk on water or move mountains without faith."
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"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
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"Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism."
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"Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically."
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"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
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"It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and " something that may surprise you more " it takes just as long to learn how to die."
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"The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men."
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"Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence."
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"What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions."
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"The most beautiful rose still has to contend with ugly thorns."
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"Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did."
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"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable."
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"Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami."
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"In the future, man will be able to create an artificial Sun which is very similar to the Sun in the sky that was once upon a time worshipped as a god!"
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"Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them."
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"You don't have to reach for the stars if you are already shining like one."
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"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."
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"From the moment that man believes neither in God nor in immortal life, he becomes 'responsible for everything alive, for everything that, born of suffering, is condemned to suffer from life.' It is he, and he alone, who must discover law and order. Then the time of exile begins, the endless search for justification, the aimless nostalgia, 'the most painful, the most heartbreaking question, that of the heart which asks itself: where can I feel at home?"
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"Speech is the index of the mind."
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"Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
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"Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them)."
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"Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking."
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"It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be."
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"A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king."
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"The ability to make a decision doesn't require the absence of doubt or fear. Both vanish in the presence of responsibility, which emerges naturally in the presence of will. When we know what we truly want, the doubts that blur our decisions, the fears that make us succumb to luck and fate, all become secondary in the face of reason. That's when we understand that our freewill and our options weren't really there. We have created both by desire. The decision is basically conscience asking us to act on our subconscious desires."
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"And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are."
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"But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic flirtation with the result. It arrives just as unexpectedly but also just as effortlessly as a prize in a lottery, and when we have heard the result, we have built ourselves up."
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"When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman."
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"Change can be beautiful, butterflies are the greatest proof of this."
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"The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible."
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"To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster."
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"You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last."
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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."
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"To be depreciated and humiliated isn't a statement of your worth but rather an evidence of your disregarded potential."
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