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Quotes by Philosopher
"Sometimes I have to act crazy to handle the crazies. Trying to be normal near the crazies makes me as crazy as them. The more I push reason and logic on them, the more they pervert it and use it against me, the angrier they make me feel. It's much easier to pretend they're ghosts talking to the wind, and ignore them as if they weren't really human. My mood improves, my self-esteem is better and I feel happier. On another hand, maybe I'm just being realistic here, because you can't really talk to the dead. That's what people without respect or empathy are; dead in the brain; just walking bodies without a soul."
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"I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo."
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"A victory which is not honourable is nothing but a defeat!"
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"No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by no means pull bees by force to their world! Your path is your poem; if people like your poem, they will fondly join you in your path!"
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"They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences."
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"You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.For those who limp go not backwards.But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness."
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"When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages."
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"Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting."
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"God is not Christian. God is not Muslim. God is not Buddhist. God is love."
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"Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight."
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"When a woman misses you, you have her mind; when she cares for you, you have her heart, when she loves you, you have her soul."
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"Pray sensibly. Pray scrupulously. Pray selflessly. Pray seriously."
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"Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read."
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"If you rule the air, you are great; the waters, you are extraordinary; the lands, you are remarkable; but if you rule over yourself, you are remarkable."
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"Following your dreams is better than being led by your fears."
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"It is at the edge of excellence that genius awaits."
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"Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious."
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"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself-so like a brother, really-I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."
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"Sovereignty unconditionally belongs neither to the people of the nation nor to some supernatural power but to the human mind, to the science and to the high ethical values!"
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"For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful!"
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"A gardener tending to his flowers is as noble as a warrior battling his opponents."
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"If you want a safe compass to guide you through life, and to banish all doubt as to the right way of looking at it, you cannot do better than accustom yourself to regard this world as a penitentiary...If you accustom yourself to this view of life you will regulate your expectations accordingly, and cease to look upon all its disagreeable incidents, great and small, its sufferings, its worries, its misery, as anything unusual or irregular; nay, you will find that everything is as it should be, in a world where each of us pays the penalty of existence in his own peculiar way."
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"Happiness does not come from having much, but from being content, even when you have little."
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"Not how well you see in a clear weather but how well you see in a foggy weather determines how better you are than others!"
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"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."
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"The field of the soul must be watered by the rain with tears of love, otherwise it will become a desert."
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"Don't risk your life for those that doesn't love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death."
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"Your ears hear much, but your heart hears more. Your eyes see much, but your mind sees more. Your toungue says much, but your soul says more. Your feet travel much, but your imagination travels more. Your hands do much, but your mind does more."
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"A hunter's meal is in proportion to his skill."
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"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
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"If you sing to one person as if you're singing to a million, you will soon have an audience of a million."
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"If seeds despaired in their darkest hours, they would never rise to enjoy their brightest days."
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"One who conquers fear cannot be conquered by anyone."
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"Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands."
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"A woman's beauty is worth little to you, a woman's intelligence is worth much to you, a woman's virtue is worth more to you, a woman's love is worth the most to you, and a woman's loyalty is worth everything to you."
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"Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe."
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"Our universe is not suitable for waiting. This universe is a 'we must do something universe,' it is a 'we must be serious universe!' Think fast, think right and implement your thoughts very fast! To survive in this universe, 'waiting' must be abolished!"
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"On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes."
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"It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil."
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"In spring we are on Earth; in summer we are on Earth; in autumn we are on Earth, but in winter we are in another planet; winter is another planet!"
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"God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child while the flesh lowers one to a child with gold."
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"Some days you feel like you're the worst of sinners, others like you're the most righteous person on earth. I am convinced that the former is when you're closest to God."
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"Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary."
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"Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy."
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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
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"Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils."
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"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."
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"Unswerving devotion to your goals is success."
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"Tears water the eyes when they have been dry for too long."
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"Don't ever think that you're a single in total freedom,but think of combating the forces of lust."
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