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Quotes by Philosopher
"The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help."
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"Joy doubles your faith, strength triples your might, and love quadruples your power."
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"Two hands cut down a few trees, but one matchstick clears a forest."
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"Your daily life is your temple and your religion."
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"People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors."
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"Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see."
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"I searched for love, and only found God; I searched for God, and only found love."
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"Through Christ, the sting of death is but a gentle pinch to the soul; and the mourn is light. Perhaps, someday, in that glorious place, free of sin, we shall meet again."
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"Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance."
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"Today's living people are much more important than tomorrow's yet unborn people! We need to help the people of today before helping the people of tomorrow! We cannot make our plans so as to save the people of distant future by ignoring today's people!"
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"The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations."
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"He who is jealous is better off not dating someone who is bisexual."
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"Where I will find peace other than in oblivion?"
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"Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting."
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"The realm of liberation is absolutely incommensurable with the relativities of higher and lower, better and worse, gain and loss, since these are all disadvantages of the ego."
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"The love and compassion of Jesus christ is not understood and felt by devils."
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"Don't let yesterday's storm keep you from enjoying today's sunshine."
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"You don't win battles you walk away from."
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"Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one."
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"Fear mediocrity, not failure."
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"Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God!"
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"A strange mystery it is that Nature, omnipotent but blind, in the revolutions of her secular hurryings through the abysses of space, has brought forth at last a child subject still to her power but gifted with sight, with knowledge of good and evil, with the capacity of judging all the works of his unthinking mother."
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"There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world."
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"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."
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"Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us."
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"No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes."
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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."
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"You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy."
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"Which eternity can be bigger or smaller? But which reality can be an eternity in your mind?"
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"When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body - or vagina - has to do the opposite."
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"The most underrated warrior in the universe is love."
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"The instinct is not completely satisfied unless a man's whole being, mental quite as much as physical, enters into the relation. Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give; unconsciously, if not consciously, they feel this and the resulting disappointment inclines them towards envy, oppression, and cruelty."
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"You know you are capitalism's ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom."
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"In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of view, we shall deny to the very end that a press is true because it is revolutionary; it will be revolutionary only if it is true, and never otherwise."
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"In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society."
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"He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary."
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"It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable."
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"An open heart leaves a breach for someone to pour love into it."
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"We are dust furrowed by the painful plough of Destiny to give birth to the emptiness of a time."
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"If a lion takes its advice from sheep, it will go hungry."
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"One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted."
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"My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests."
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"It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril.You are not yet free, you still search for freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful.You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom. Your fierce dogs long for freedom; they bark for joy in their cellar when your spirit aspires to break open all prisons.To me you are still a prisoner who imagines freedom: ah, such prisoners of the soul become clever, but also deceitful and base."
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"Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day."
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"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."
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"The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on other days not tight enough? Or maybe that is the breath of a living love knowing when to protect, when to release, and when to protect again. For we are the products of an active love - the Father the creator, the Son the perfecter, the Spirit the supervisor - but just like in a factory, to deny the process is to ultimately create a defect of oneself."
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"He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived."
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