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Quotes by Philosopher
"Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized."
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"The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man."
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"You can't clean your dirty past as if you are cleaning a dirty window! All you can do is to create a clean future!"
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"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking for yourself."
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"Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished to the ends of the earth, and yet in whatever outlandish corner of the world you may find yourself stationed, you will find that place, whatever it may be like, a hospitable home. Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there."
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"It is not enough to win a war, it is more important to organize the peace."
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"A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology."
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"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."
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"If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La CA te d'Azur."
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"We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman."
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"It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist's mission is to convert, a theological philosopher's mission is to build an understanding of a position."
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"Melancholy men are of all others the most witty."
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"You cannot walk in a great man's shoes without getting sores on your feet."
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"It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty."
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"Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people."
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"After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy."
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"To a misogynist: To err is woman."
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"Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests."
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"Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero."
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"God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell!"
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"Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture."
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"Ignorance hides in darkness, wisdom hides in light."
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"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
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"Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai dA©couvert en moi un invincible A©tA©."
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"All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects."
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"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."
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"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."
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"When you are watching the universe, you are watching yourself! Wherever you visit in the universe, you visit yourself!"
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"If we all knew who God really was and what he really wanted for each and every one of us, we would all know that only a fool could really deny him."
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"No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin none of the philosophical sects has admitted it none therefore has spoken the truth."
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"The origin of wickedness is the cliff upon which theism, just as much as pantheism, is wrecked; for both imply optimism. However, evil and sin, both in their terrible magnitude, cannot be disavowed; indeed, because of the promised punishments for the latter, the former is only further increased. Whence all this, in a world that is either itself a God or the well-intentioned work of a God?"
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"Darkness is an uncomfortable place, but that is where stars are made."
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"One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large."
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"It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring happiness, to face destruction while cherishing the idea of a higher civilization."
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"If you want to know how fortunate you are, visit three places: the slum, the hospital, and the cemetery."
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"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible."
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"My conscious mind must have its roots and origins in the most unfathomable depths of being, yet it feels as if it lived all by itself in this tight little skull."
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"To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry."
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"Light in your soul kindles the light in your world."
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"Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow."
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"The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE."
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"One who cannot swim must not blame the water."
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"There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted."
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"I could not break records, so I decided to shatter them."
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"No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return."
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"The real strength of a man is not in the size of his muscles, but in the size of his heart."
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"Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt."
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