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Quotes by Philosopher
"In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all."
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"Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold."
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"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent."
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"Sages shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them."
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"For any kind of problem, we must first undoubtedly believe that we can absolutely solve it! Then, the solution will come; it is our determination and our utter belief on this matter that shall bring the solution!"
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"If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere."
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"The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil."
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"We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep"; beseeching Him of His mercy, that as in the beginning He discovered the face of the deep, and brought forth dry land, so He would now discover land to us, that we might not perish."
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"The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
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"Rain does not fall on one tree."
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"When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool."
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"It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!"
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"He who illumines one has begun illumining the world."
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"If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status."
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"The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy."
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"It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity."
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"I can see myself before myself-A being through dark scenery."
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"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."
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"Life is about discovering things worth dying for."
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"A seed today is a forest tomorrow."
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"Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?"
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"If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!"
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"Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them."
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"Our photographs are our best proof to others that we lived the things we lived in the past!"
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"Today's amateurs are tomorrow's champions."
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"They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies."
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"When God pushes you off a cliff, it is your faith He wants you to use as wings."
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"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."
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"You cannot catch a whale and a fish with the same bait."
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"Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I " equally ignorant " do not believe [that I know anything]."
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"We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavour to shine. We labour unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence, and neglect the real. And if we possess calmness, or generosity, or truthfulness, we are eager to make it known, so as to attach these virtues to that imaginary existence. We would rather separate them from ourselves to join them to it; and we would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave. A great proof of the nothingness of our being, not to be satisfied with the one without the other, and to renounce the one for the other! For he would be infamous who would not die to preserve his honour."
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"Don't be afraid of criticism, the tallest trees are always confronted by the strongest winds."
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"We only fall on our face to learn how to rise on our feet."
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"If you despise your people, you will disregard them. If you hate your people, you will harm them. If you esteem your people, you will serve them. If you love your people, you will even die for them."
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"Life occasionally humbles us by making us turned on by someone whom we turn off."
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"The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity!"
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"The road to success is paved with doubters and haters."
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"Genius - the pursuit of madness."
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"Most sexually adventurous women want a man who regards cunnilingus as a basic woman right."
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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
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"Today is tomorrow's stepping stone, but for the wise it is a ladder."
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"A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner."
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"I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized that he had never loved her. He had been bored, thats all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen even loveless slavery, even war or death."
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"Belief means not wanting to know what is true."
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"If your present thoughts do not lift you higher than your previous ones, rid yourself of them."
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