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Quotes by Philosopher
"Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence."
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"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."
57
"Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it."
57
"Barley porridge, or a crust of barley bread, and water do not make a very cheerful diet, but nothing gives one keener pleasure than having the ability to derive pleasure even from that-- and the feeling of having arrived at something which one cannot be deprived of by any unjust stroke of fortune."
57
"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
57
"But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing."
57
"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman."
57
"Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony."
57
"Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn."
57
"Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form."
57
"For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages."
57
"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
57
"Nature to be commanded must be obeyed."
56
"An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."
56
"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."
56
"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."
56
"The dust cannot fight against the wind, the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!"
56
"It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren."
56
"I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics."
56
"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."
56
"One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy."
56
"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."
56
"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."
56
"More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency."
56
"My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible."
56
"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."
56
"Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire."
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"Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second."
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"Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end."
56
"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."
56
"In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality."
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"The great are inspired. The extraordinary inspire."
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"Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever."
56
"The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers."
56
"Language is the house of the truth of Being."
56
"Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it."
56
"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."
56
"The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions."
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"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it."
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"Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization."
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"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."
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"The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial."
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"Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit."
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"We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words."
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"The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are."
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"Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening."
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