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Quotes by Philosopher
"It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens."
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"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."
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"Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds."
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"In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards."
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"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potters oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirits the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"
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"Success and perseverance are Siamese twins: where one goes the other follows."
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"Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul."
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"The universe is a masterpiece painted by love's masterstrokes."
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"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."
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"A spirit ushered by false teachings is like a body nourished by sweets. The adult, as opposed to the child, will come to understand reasons one cannot live a healthy existence on nothing but candy; so likewise, the Christian must come to understand that one cannot know and love the will of God under false doctrine."
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"Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person nation or creed."
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"One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions."
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"The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas."
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"An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind."
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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."
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"Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?"
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"Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!"
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"When you're working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack."
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"Thanksgiving comes after Christmas."
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"The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear."
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"There are no winners in real games."
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"Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman."
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"Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty."
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"The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish form our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instill faith in times of despair."
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"There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle."
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"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
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"Love is the soul's symphony."
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"The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual and generation finds in existence as something given, is the real basis of what the philosophers have conceived as "substance" and "essence of man," and what they have deified and attacked: a real basis which is not in the least disturbed, in its effect and influence on the development of men, by the fact that these philosophers revolt against it as "self-consciousness" and the "Unique."
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"Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas."
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"No man will survive who genuinely opposes you or any other crowd and prevents the occurrence of many unjust and illegal happenings in the city. A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time."
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"If two people said the same thing but only one of them said it beautifully, then only that one will conquer both the hearts and the minds of the people!"
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"Is it 'Stockholm syndrome' when your God has never once misguided your steps? I think not! Let the lost ones dart across the darkness, bashing into walls, pretending to love their ways as we delight in obedience to the footsteps of Christ which bring us to freedom. By Faith we wander - not because we are lost, but because we are free."
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"Pursue money while you're alive, so that poverty will not pursue you when you're old."
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"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."
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"If you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street."
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"Think twice before you pull your trouser and rape a woman; she may be your mother, sister or friend, and you know the consequences that follows."
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"Slay Goliath and the army behind him scatters."
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"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
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"Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets."
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"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."
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"The denial of truth does not harm the Truth, it only harms that which denies the Truth."
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"As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions."
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"Be as wise as a fox. Be as harmless as a dove."
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"A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and a sage is a genius in life."
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"To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!"
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"Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life."
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