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Quotes by Philosopher
"Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them."
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"Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune."
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"If you can't control it, you will be the toy of your own mind!"
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"Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government."
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"Going to church is not a sign of going to God, if you think he is omnipresent, he is right there in your soul and bedroom."
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"And just then it crossed my mind that one might fire, or not fire-and it would come to absolutely the same thing."
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"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."
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"Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power; and any wise man worth his salt as a wise man at least understands this. One may be able to comprehend all the human perspectives in the universe, but this gives more to decipher regarding what is actually true; and even after discovering the truth, the challenge is in maintaining a patience for the infinite number of opinions that do not reflect that truth. Its consistency in man is challenge. A worldly knowledge ends at the former challenge of confusion, but the knowledge of Christ ends at the latter challenge of patience."
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"If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany."
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"Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward from the gray Dawn of Time! Ye are Sons of the Jotun-land; the land of Difficulties Conquered. Difficult? You must try this thing. Once try it with the understanding that it will and shall have to be done. Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money! I will bet on you once more, against all Jo'tuns, Tailor-gods, Double-barrelled Law-wards, and Denizens of Chaos whatsoever!"
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"Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the first time we are something quite different from what we consider ourselves to be: usually we are nothing more than a single individual trait which leaps to the eye and determines the whole impression that we make."
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"The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people's failure to recognize their ability."
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"Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been."
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"What is more, we cannot do morality a worse service than by seeing to derive it from examples. Every example of it presented to me must first itself be judged by moral principles in order to decide if it is fit to serve as an original example...even the Holy One of the gospel must first be compared with our ideal of moral perfection before we can recognize him to be such."
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"Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied."
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"Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime."
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"Even if yesterday existed, today is just real, not a fantasy like the past."
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"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident."
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"Man is free rather than man is freedom."
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"In the lie of truth lies the truth."
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"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years."
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"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it."
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"It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing."
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"When love invades your life, it captures your heart, imprisons your mind, and frees your soul."
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"Between world and animal are fewer questions than between man and world. How many such questions are there in God's Word?"
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"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved."
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"We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain and mind, genome and microbiome."
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"Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure."
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"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"
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"If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom."
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"What beauty could be your life's mountain peak which you could climb all the way up?"
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"Holding onto fear is weakness, holding onto faith is strength."
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"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
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"Dream more. Learn more. Work more. Become more."
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"Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!"
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"Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul."
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"There are many madnesses in every culture! All cultures need reason!"
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"To encourage people, walk beside them. To inspire people, walk in front of them. To drive people, walk behind them. To lead people, walk with them."
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"A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts."
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"Praying anywhere' can easily become 'praying nowhere', just as 'praying anytime' can easily become 'praying at no time'. Everything in general becomes nothing in particular'."
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"Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him."
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"Great poets are great copy editors."
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"If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on is way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?"
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"We think we like or love some people until we see them regularly."
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"To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life."
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"Hungry people need food, definitely not an advice!"
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"Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance."
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"The surest of stubborn silences is not to hold one's tongue but to talk."
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"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."
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