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Quotes by Philosopher
"She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist."
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"I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live."
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"Stars don't beg the world for attention, their beauty forces us to look up."
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"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."
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"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
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"If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever."
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"The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men."
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"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
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"If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other."
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"When you are suffering from sexual starvation, a spank or even a hug seems like a porn scene."
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"We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope."
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"The Master said, "If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment."
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"To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more."
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"Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly."
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"Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed."
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"Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking."
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"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence."
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"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."
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"Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to."
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"No mind seems more peaceful than the mind of a sleeping innocent child because life has not yet planted the seeds of sorrow in that mind!"
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"Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor."
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"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
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"Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds."
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"The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics."
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"The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius."
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"When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets."
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"When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs."
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"Your inner light lights up your outer world."
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"First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai."
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"How come he cannot recognize his own cruelty now turned against him? How come he can't see his own savagery as a colonist in the savagery of these oppressed peasants who have absorbed it through every pore and for which they can find no cure? The answer is simple: this arrogant individual, whose power of authority and fear of losing it has gone to his head, has difficulty remembering he was once a man; he thinks he is a whip or a gun; he is convinced that the domestication of the "inferior races" is obtained by governing their reflexes. He disregards the human memory, the indelible reminders; and then, above all, there is this that perhaps he never know: we only become what we are by radically negating deep down what others have done to us."
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"An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences."
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"This is the century of fear."
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"Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician."
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"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."
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"I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring."
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"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."
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"Teach me O God not to torture myself not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith."
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"The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool."
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"Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it."
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"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."
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"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
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