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Quotes by Philosopher
"Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening."
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"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."
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"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
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"Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education."
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"The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death."
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"If I do not love my fellow man, I can be sure of it that I do not love Jesus Christ. And I would do well if guilty of loving Jesus Christ even more than I love my fellow man, because only by this may I fully come to love my fellow man."
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"Lips may lie, but the heart always tells the truth."
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"The general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied."
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"How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do."
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"The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him."
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"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
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"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."
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"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing."
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"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."
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"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."
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"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings."
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"There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws."
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"I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real."
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"Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it."
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"A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design."
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"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
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"If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked."
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"Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained."
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
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"Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed."
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"But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man."
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"God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation."
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"A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison."
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"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
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"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible."
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"You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track, and once you're dead, the lickers scavenge for another intellectual candy."
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"Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself."
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"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him."
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"It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself."
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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."
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"Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game."
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"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
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"Don't seek, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax."
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"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."
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"Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."
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"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."
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