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Quotes by Philosopher
"The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it."
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"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants."
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"How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?"
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"We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us."
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"Miracles' rely on their observer's ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer's failure to notice the observed's defects."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
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"As a rose blossoms despite being surrounded by thorns, bloom despite being surrounded by troubles."
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"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."
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"Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction."
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"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
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"A vessel's beauty does not determine how much water it carries."
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"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."
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"Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God."
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"Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul."
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"All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone."
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"Well, you're free without wanting to be,' he explained, 'it just happens so, that's all. But Mathieu's freedom is based on reason.''I still don't understand,' said Lola, shaking her head.'Well, he doesn't care a curse about his apartment: he lives there just as he would live anywhere else, and I've got the feeling that he doesn't care much about his girl. He stays with her because he must sleep with someone. His freedom isn't visible, it's inside him."
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"If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them."
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"Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?"
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"Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen."
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"Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine."
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"When you count your blessings, count life twice."
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"It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree's greatest strength lies."
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"It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all."
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"Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence."
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"I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy."
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"Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it."
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"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."
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"Ask not that events should happen as you will but let your will be that events should happen as they do and you shall have peace."
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"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."
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"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."
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"Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related."
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"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey."
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"I hate books they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about."
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"If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion."
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"People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?"
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"Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards."
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"To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence."
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"The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin."
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"Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit."
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"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."
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"Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it."
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"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free."
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