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Quotes by Philosopher
"They say that people fall in and out of love, but do they, too, fall in hate? Or fall into indifference? It has hindered men for ages the notion that one falls in love rather than decides to truly love, the notion that his lack of control, on the B-side, can also make him fall in hate or indifference without the responsibility to help it or control it."
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"When you are in love, your eyes see him only, your ears hear him only, your mouth speaks of him only, your mind thinks of him only, your heart desires him only, your soul lives for him only; your entire universe revolves around him only."
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"You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt."
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"Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers."
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"People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas, they will immediately take them as if they are taking beautiful flowers!"
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"Wisdom is the greatest speaker in history; nature, second. Folly is the worst speaker in history; fools, second."
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"In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression."
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"We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it."
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"People like the leaders; they like to follow them; they let the leaders to think on behalf of them; they like shepherds; they like to behave like sheep! For god's sake, follow your own path, be an individual, be independent! Stop being a coach in the train, a duck in the row! Get some personality! Use your own mind to determine your own path! Forget the leader, forget the shepherd, forget the guru, and forget the protagonist! Be the leader of yourself!"
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"A golden opportunity may turn into silver if you wait too long to take advantage of it."
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"Ask your wife for forgiveness, even when you're right."
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"To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas."
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"Count your smiles, not your frowns."
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"Pain frees you from complacency. Tears free you from sorrow. Weaknesses free you from pride. Adversity frees from boredom. Challenges free you from monotony."
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"No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths!"
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"Regard those who respect you. Esteem those who honor you. Cherish those who love you. Reward those who adore you."
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"The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed."
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"Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time."
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"A tree is honored for the size of its fruit, not the size of its leaves."
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"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
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"Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cioA non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell'umanitA dotati tanto miseramente dalla natura, rimarrA dopo i quarant'anni difficilmente esente da una certa traccia di misantropia."
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"In a second you can change your mind, in a minute you can change your heart, in an hour you can change your life, and in a day you can change your destiny."
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"A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond."
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"Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit it is worse than a chance lost it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge."
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"A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people."
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"Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept."
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"I'm not offended until you think I'm offended."
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"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."
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"At last, you will not be remembered for roaming the earth as a non-entity, but by every word, and every miracle, and every love, and every seed that ever came from the innermost part of your heart."
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"Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go!"
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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
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"If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us hope (i.e., public speakers, presidents, priests, etc.) wouldn't wear suits."
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"Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any."
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"There is no limit to what your mind can achieve, what your heart can accomplish, and what your soul can realize."
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"A step towards what you fear is a mile towards mastering it."
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"Love costs us much, but we still need it. Wisdom costs us much, but we still seek it. Faith costs us much, but we still practice it. Life costs us much, but we still desire it."
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"A versifier passes through the sound, sounds go through a poet."
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"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you."
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"In this lies Man's true freedom: in determination to worship only the God created by our own love of the good."
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"Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people."
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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
Job,
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"The importance of Man, which is the one indispensable dogma of the theologians, receives no support from a scientific view of the future of the solar system."
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"Major breakthroughs often come after major breakdowns."
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"A flower does not bloom for itself, but for the world; do likewise."
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"Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external."
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"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."
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"To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today."
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"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
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"Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake."
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