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Quotes by Philosopher
"When the sleep appears like a ghost, all the reality disappears!"
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"I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement it takes place every day."
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"Wise men are not pacifists, they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough."
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"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."
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"Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not."
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"Don't say deep things to shallow people and don't talk about shallow things with the deep people!"
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"To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others."
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"As long as music survives, poetry will never die."
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"The innocent is the person who explains nothing."
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"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else's opinion that we do not look happy."
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"The trains always arrive at your station. The question is which one to take?"
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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."
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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."
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"I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind."
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"Guide valiantly. Guide venerably. Guide valiantly. Guide virtuously."
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"He who has great power should use it lightly."
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"Moral scepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual scepticism can. When we stick to it that there is truth (be it of either kind), we do so with our whole nature, and resolve to stand or fall by the results. The sceptic with his whole nature adopts the doubting attitude; but which of us is the wiser, Omniscience only knows."
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"Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!"
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"Love boldly. Love boundlessly. Love benevolently. Love blessedly."
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"The journey to greatness is a marathon, not a hundred meter dash."
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"The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity."
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"You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have."
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"The pen is mightier than the sword, it should never run out of ink."
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"The sky's dangers offer the eagle more opportunities than the nest's comfort."
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"Don't let mediocre people talk you out of your dreams, lions have little in common with sheep."
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"It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind, is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society; and that if the parent does not fulfil this obligation, the State ought to see it fulfilled, at the charge, as far as possible, of the parent."
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"A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us."
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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
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"Talent is like a little seed; when nurtured, it will flourish."
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"People always get exactly what they believe to deserve, despite the fact that they may be unhappy with what they have. We are 100% responsible for our destiny, and I would dare to say 200%, because we do create the conditions for the future we end up attracting to our lives. But, the challenge is in learning to see it, and noticing how we do this. Therefore, there's really nothing to regret about life."
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"The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time."
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"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."
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"If you are happy, don't analyse your happiness, don't ask questions and don't even think about it; just live it to the fullest!"
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"The ambitious strive to be well known, the enlightened strive to be worth knowing."
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"Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment."
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"It is in the darkest hour that a star reveals its brightest light."
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"The breathtaking view at the mountaintop is compensation for all of the breath lost whilst sweating towards it."
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"Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything."
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"The greatest freedom is to be yourself without apology."
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"Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you."
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"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."
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"Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners."
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"Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more."
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"Every positive attempt was as a result of encouragement, every encouragement leads to success."
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