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Quotes by Philosopher
"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
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"The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him."
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"In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior."
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"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."
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"For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
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"Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world."
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"There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible."
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"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."
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"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid."
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"Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm."
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"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."
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"While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally."
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"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave."
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"The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will."
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"It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars."
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"We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to offer. The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, and bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have all been flown for religious ideals."
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"When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher."
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"If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship."
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"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."
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"I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body."
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"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."
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"Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety."
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"A belief is an uneducated guess."
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"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."
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"Nightmares are not dreams. A good dream does not leave the dreamer in darkness, confusion and terror. Start having dreams, not nightmares!"
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"Speaking one's mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men."
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"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate."
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"It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave."
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"School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee."
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"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
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"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."
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"No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged."
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"Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty."
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"In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for."
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"If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers."
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