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Quotes by Philosopher
"Geniuses' steps take you higher than talent's leaps."
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"An original pebble is better than a counterfeit diamond."
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"Falling in love with a woman's body is lust, with a woman's mind is sense, with a woman's heart is virtue, and with a woman's soul is wisdom."
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"A flower has no choice in where it is planted, but does have a choice in the direction it grows."
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"A wise man does not follow the crowd. He follows his own light."
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"A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!"
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"Love needs no reason, it speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart."
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"To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don't do this, you just declare yourself being fascist!"
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"Music is not my life. My life is music."
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"A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it."
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"When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own."
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"Ordinary people are products of their environment. Extraordinary people make their environments products of them."
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"Light is formless, but pierces the eyes. Wisdom is formless, but pierces the mind. Faith is formless, but pierces the heart. Love is formless, but pierces the soul."
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"The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments, our comrades will be more patient than the executioners and more numerous than the bullets."
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"Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!He was human, and only a poor piece of man and Ego: this phantom came to me from my own fire and ashes, that is the truth! It did not come from the 'beyond'!"
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"An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be."
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"Free is he who is reputable for not being fearful of losing his reputation."
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"Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!"
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"When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it."
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"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
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"I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know."
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"Learn from seeds to rise, no matter how much dirt is thrown at you."
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"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
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"If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the ore threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy."
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"Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road... old buildings, old people on a front porch... strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better than the new stuff."
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"Acquaintances are always abundant, friends are always scarce!"
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"The more you cry today, the more stronger and happier you'll be tomorrow."
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"It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance."
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"Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront with your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes!"
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"Great obstacles are no match for a great God."
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"Through storms you are able to get all the colors you need to paint the rainbow."
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"We are nothing without compassion for others and for all other beings!"
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"A teacher instructs; a student absorbs. A book is a companion; a good one, a messiah."
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"A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit."
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"When your dream comes true, have another one! Your dream-box must never remain empty!"
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"A vagina is an uneducated woman's diploma."
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"When you wrestle with life, your heart inevitably becomes a warrior; when you wrestle with death, your soul inevitably becomes a conqueror."
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"Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces 'nice' people, not heroes."
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"Though love may be blind, it sees much; though it may be deaf, it hears much; though it may be mute, it says much; and though it may be lame, it does much."
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"A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones."
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"The sharper the arrow the quicker the hunt."
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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads."
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"Your mind is a book, God is the pen."
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"Kindness is a rose, love is a bundle."
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"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!"
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"How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?"
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"The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion."
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