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Quotes by Philosopher
"One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world."
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"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
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"Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills."
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"Poor people can't understand this: It's not what you do that creates a fortune, but who you are."
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"Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!"
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"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
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"It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character."
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"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"
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"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please."
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"If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen."
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"What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support."
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"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf."
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"Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
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"History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends."
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"In storms look for rainbows, in sunshine prepare for storms."
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"If somebody asks you where you are going, tell him you are going to everywhere, because future is a path going to everywhere!"
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"Writing is the geometry of the soul."
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"Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!"
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"An afro is a poor man's haircut."
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"A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice."
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"Our purpose is to find out whether innocence, the moment it becomes involved in an action, can avoid committing murder."
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"Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?"
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"God writes love and speaks poetry."
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"Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!"
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"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."
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"A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition, you cannot hear him but you see his incomprehensible dumb-show and you wonder why he is alive."
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"The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease."
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"Truth is the highest knowledge. Faith is the highest courage. Reason is the highest wisdom. Love is the highest virtue."
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"Slaves of wisdom are masters of many."
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"Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!"
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"I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate."
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"In your winter you deny your spring."
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"The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later."
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"Don't you think our society is designed to kill in that way? Of course, you've surely heard about those tiny fish in the rivers of Brazil which attack the swimmer by the thousands, eat him up in a few moments in quick little mouthfuls and leave only a perfectly clean skeleton behind? So, that's the way they're constituted. 'Do you want a clean life, like everyone else?' Of course the answer is yes. How could you not? 'Fine. We'll clean you up. Here's a job, here's a family, here's some organized leisure.' And the little teeth bite into the flesh, right down to the bone. But i'm being unfair. I shouldn't have said, 'the way they're constituted', because after all, it's our way, too: it's a case of who strips whom."
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"The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the story, as an imitation of action, must represent one action, a complete whole, with its several incidents so closely connected that the transposal or withdrawal of any one of them will disjoin and dislocate the whole. For that which makes no perceptible difference by its presence or absence is no real part of the whole."
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"I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness."
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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
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"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships."
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"Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight."
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"Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation."
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"It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side can only be discovered by diligent search."
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"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."
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"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."
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"You are not the body, you are not the mind - you are the observer."
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"There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same."
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"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."
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