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Quotes by Philosopher
"Moments are the elements of profit."
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"My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world."
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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"Eternity is the stopped heart of Time."
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"We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion."
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"He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door."
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"Brilliance is the masterpiece of your mind. Excellence is the masterpiece of your heart. Genius is the masterpiece of your soul."
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"That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence."
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"Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!"
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"I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine."
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"Because failure works double time, to get success, work triple time."
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"Don't follow someone else's map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself."
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"Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it."
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"If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways."
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"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
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"One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one."
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"Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work."
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"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"
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"I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?"
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"Use the pebbles of failure to build yourself a bridge to success."
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"The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.The usual way of looking at things sees objects as it were from the midst of them, the view sub specie aeternitatis from outside.In such a way that they have the whole world as background."
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"Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better."
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"If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it."
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"Woman wants control, man self-control ."
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"Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving."
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"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"
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"Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many of which are doubtless problems only for thought. The trisection of an angle is similarly an insoluble problem only for compass and straight-edge construction, and Achilles cannot overtake the tortoise so long as their progress is considered piecemeal, endlessly having the distance between them. However, as it is not Achilles but the method of measurement which fails to catch up with the tortoise, so it is not man but his method of thought which fails to find fulfillment in experience."
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"An empty street sucks your fullness, a full street fills your emptiness!"
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"In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God."
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"When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there now instead of then."
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"I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world."
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"Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner."
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"Darkness is always afraid of the positive thoughts, because they are also a species of light!"
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"Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more."
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"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
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"I am smart because I know I nothing."
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"For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere."
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"God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory."
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"Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred."
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"The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence!"
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"Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original."
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"In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start."
Mind,
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"It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens."
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