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Quotes by Philosopher
"Make your mark now. Make your mark today. Make your mark forever."
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"In the strictest sense, we cannot actually think about life and reality at all, because this would have to include thinking about thinking, thinking about thinking about thinking, and so ad infinitum. One can only attempt a rational, descriptive philosophy of the universe on the assumption that one is totally separate from it. But if you and your thoughts are part of this universe, you cannot stand outside them to describe them."
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"People can hurt you, but you can still love. People can betray you, but you can still trust. People can put you down, but you can still rise. People can oppose you, but you can still prevail."
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"Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way."
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"Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning."
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"Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul."
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"Does anybody know which are the thoughts of God, even if they are plants, mountains, sky, stars or whatever else?"
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"The soul was the first temple, love was the first religion."
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"We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others."
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"The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade."
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"The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone."
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"There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy."
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"Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex."
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"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
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"One who is lost cannot show others the way."
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"In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!"
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"An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle, its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball."
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"If the light within you is greater than the darkness around you, you are a star."
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"The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey."
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"If you try to hide a star behind a dark veil, it will still shine through it."
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"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
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"There is no past and future for those who exist in the now. Live in the moment, today is the only reality."
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"The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs."
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"Every talent must unfold itself in fighting."
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"Love sets you free the moment it arrests you."
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"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."
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"Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up."
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"Sun glasses are the unofficial celebrities' uniform."
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"Those who pretend as if they don't love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person."
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"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes."
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"A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage."
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"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."
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"If a man could outpace his shadow, he would still find it waiting for him at the finishing line."
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"Life shines where the light shines and our mind is our greatest light that can brighten our lives!"
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"Looking on the bright side of life is better than looking on the dark side of despair."
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"When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man."
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"You cannot lead those who do not want to follow."
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"Picking up the pieces of a shattered dream is better than having no pieces to pick up at all."
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"And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fullfilment. you should be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a word and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked unbound."
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"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"
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"Don Quixote is not an imaginary person, he is as real as Alexander the Great."
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"Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed."
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"If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile."
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"Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age."
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"Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child's insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence."
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"When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets."
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