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Quotes by Philosopher
"Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation."
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"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
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"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."
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"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."
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"Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology."
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"I hate victims who respect their executioners."
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"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."
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"Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure."
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"There is nothing wrong with being wrong."
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"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."
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"You have to fight great battles to guard your mind, extraordinary battles to protect your heart, and remarkable battles to defend your soul."
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"Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct."
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"There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation."
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"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
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"In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived."
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"The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses."
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"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you."
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"We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness."
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"In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature."
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"He doesn't play the game ... He refuses to lie. Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler. But Meursault, contrary to appearances, doesn't want to make life simpler. He says what he is, he refuses to hide his feelings and society immediately feels threatened."
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"The essential point of view of Christianity is sin."
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"The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself."
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"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all."
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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
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"He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity."
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"For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding."
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"I can only meditate when I am walking, when I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs."
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"The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound."
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"A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position."
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"Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress."
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"You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks."
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"If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself."
Man,
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"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true."
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"History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion."
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"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest."
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"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources."
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"He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave."
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"The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all."
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"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."
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"The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was."
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"Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it."
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"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."
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"When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet."
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"When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing."
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"The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death."
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"Time is that in which all things pass away."
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