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Quotes by Philosopher
"Never cut down a tree whose shade you might need tomorrow."
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"Don't poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow."
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"The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion."
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"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness."
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"It is always easy to create an ordinary city; what is difficult is to create an extraordinary one, peaceful and restful one, smart and tidy, artful and cultivated one, in short, a livable one! And Zurich is such a city!"
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"Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the power of an eagle's eye!"
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"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
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"Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish."
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"If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!"
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"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"
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"Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself."
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"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."
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"Caged birds still sing beautiful symphonies."
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"God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
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"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
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"Go back to Socrates: 'Know thyself.' For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are only two kinds of people: saints, who know they are sinners; and sinners, who think they are saints. Which are you?"
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"It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
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"Youth is an unpleasant period, for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever."
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"When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change."
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"He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working. His (Korean) friends nod and smile and eat the food they've taken from tins and say no pleasantly."
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"Be slow to teach, and quick to learn. Avoid impious people, run from fools, and seek out the wise."
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"Where fear is happiness is not."
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"Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false."
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"It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere."
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"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."
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"Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!"
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"We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children."
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"The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours."
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"You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons."
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"Great minds birth great ideas. Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas. Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas."
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"Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the applause of the populace. Just as it was started on its first day, so it will run; nowhere will it turn aside, nowhere will it delay."
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"Change is scientific, 'progress' is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy."
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"When love intoxicates your heart, it is difficult for your soul to remain sober."
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"To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate."
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"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over."
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"God is not some lesser employee, as many try to make Him out to be: rather He is the ultimate Treasure. He works in a man; He works on a man; He works through a man; He works around a man. Know that He does far more than simply work for a man. And yet, even as He Himself needs no one else, everyone else is ever in need of Him."
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"Learn from stars; when dark times try to dull your sparkle, shine."
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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they would choke and strangle it, out of jealousy--ah, they know only too well that it will flee from them!"
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"Some people love but will never marry each other. Some are married to but have never loved and will never love each other."
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"It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity."
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"If your thoughts are higher than your problems, you can fly above them."
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"One of the things I really dislike about Christians is their hypocrisy, they criticize magicians but portray Jesus as Harry Potter."
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"Clever talk, ingratiating looks, fawning reverence: Tso-ch'iu Ming found that shameful, and so do I. Friendly while harboring resentment: Tso-ch'iu Ming found that shameful, too, and so do I."
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"The greatest rewards lie in the unknown."
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"The Christian God seemed the most offensive to people precisely because he was the most godlike. He was too perfect even to be coaxed by human efforts, and therefore sent his son to do the job."
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"Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing system that is far more precise and far more accurate and far more powerful than anything that is contained in the boundaries of rational thought."
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"Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book " I call that viciousness!"
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