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Quotes by Philosopher
"Dream to reach the stars, awaken to reach the edge of the universe."
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"Be truthful. Be presentable. Be tactical. Be profitable."
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"An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric."
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"A star earns the right to shine the day it is born."
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"A flower that refuses to bloom robs the world of its beauty."
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"Failure is the school of greatness."
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"Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield."
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"Four Characters in Consciousness-How does it go on? We notice immediately four important characters in the process, of which it shall be the duty of the present chapter to treat in a general way:1) Every 'state' tends to be part of a personal consciousness. 2) Within each personal consciousness states are always changing. 3) Each personal consciousness is sensibly continuous.4) It is interested in some parts of its object to the exclusion of others, and welcomes or rejects-chooses from among them, in a word-all the while."
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"Those who wish their virtue to be advertised are not striving for virtue but for renown. Are you not willing to be just without being renowned? Nay, indeed you must often be just and be at the same time disgraced. And then, if you are wise, let ill repute, well won, be a delight. Farewell."
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"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."
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"Normality is the new eccentric."
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"If men could be bought like clothes at an outlet, only then would women always get what they bargained for."
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"True love cannot grow old, it is timeless."
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"Today's tears sweep the road to tomorrow's blessings."
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"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
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"God knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd now because we live in a very different culture, a different time period. They had their problems and we have ours. God is constant but man is not, and he foreknew the ever-changing world his people would have to deal with; therefore, and if there is indeed an omniscient God, a Christ-like figure would be our only rational, possible connection to a constant, holy God throughout the evolution of culture and social law. The only answer that makes sense when it comes to relevance regarding religions and time periods is Christ, and the chances are slim that men could have invented it."
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"Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe."
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"A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise."
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"To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them."
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"I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise."
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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"Think honestly. Think humbly. Think honorably. Think happily."
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"The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!"
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"If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him."
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"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time."
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"Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house."
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"No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself."
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"As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?"
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"You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."
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"Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the usual channels of friendship, letters, trains, and boats. Others, fewer these, Tarrou may have been one of them, had desired reunion with something they couldn't have defined, but which seemed to them the only desirable thing on earth. For want of a better name, they sometimes called it peace."
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"To appreciate pleasure, someone had to experience pain; to appreciate joy, some had to experience sorrow; to appreciate love, some had to experience heartache; to appreciate freedom, some had to experience fear."
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"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
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"Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing."
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"Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much."
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"We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us."
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"When love arrests your heart, pray she sentences it for eternity."
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"Simple and plain things can touch your heart very easily! If you can be simple and plain, you can touch every heart!"
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"I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn't worth attention are the things that attracts attention."
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"Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive."
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"Bring forth a spiritual idea that will never fade."
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"The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools."
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"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."
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"Even the longest beautiful path is perceived as very short and even the shortest ugly path is perceived as very long! Beauty changes the perceptions!"
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"There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life."
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"The soul is a prolonged anniversary of our lives in this world."
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"Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears."
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"Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you."
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"New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a colossal, horrible shadow. God is dead, but given the way people are, there may still be caves for millennia in which his shadow is displayed. -- And we -- we must still defeat his shadow as well!"
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"Give me a man who sings at his work."
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"How much weight can carry a thought which does not acknowledge that it is an illusion?"
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