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Quotes by Philosopher
"The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion."
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"If you are ungrateful for one blessing, you will not be grateful for two. If you are ungrateful for two blessings, you will not be grateful for three. If you are grateful for one blessing, you will be grateful for innumerable."
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"In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!"
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"A sad soul needs an infinite horizon which can throw all his sorrow into the silence of the eternal emptiness!"
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"Belonging to the working class is the economy's punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class."
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"Every seed wants to die in the soil! Every umbrella wants to live in a perpetually rainy world! Every mirror wants to see its own face in another mirror! Everything in this universe has dreams they wish to realise!"
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"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
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"What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news."
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"Love is the soul's rainbow."
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"It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all."
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"You won't become what you want to be, else you become what you fear to be."
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"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper."
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"A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus."
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"For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch."
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"But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life."
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"Even in the middle of a hopeless darkness a light may suddenly reach you, keep your hope tightly and this great hope of yours will strongly attract the light onto you!"
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"Look behind you in gratitude. Look ahead of you in hope. Look beside you in caution. Look around you in faith."
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"Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned."
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"Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing."
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"What happens when you give people a 2nd chance? They blame you for it. What happens when you give people a 3rd chance? They ridicule you. What happens when you give them a 4th chance? They make sure they will have a 5th. What happens when you give them a 5th? They blame you for everything and laugh at you. What happens when you give them a 6th? At this point, they try to kill you by accident before you even have another chance of living them. What happens when you give them a 7th chance? They punish you for all the chances you have given them before and betray you in the most horrible way they can, proving that they didn't deserve not even one chance at anything. Forgiveness is not for everyone, and those that deserve it never reach the point of even needing it."
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"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."
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"Before letting someone hold your heart in their hands, make sure their hands are clean."
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"As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!"
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"We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves."
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"Sometimes you must behave like a tunnel! If a formidable mountain is on your way, thrust through it!"
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"Ask for a fish, and you only get one; ask for a net, and you can catch dozens."
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"The only weapon you are allowed to kill anyone with is kindness."
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"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."
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"Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life."
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"And do you know why we have not the power to attain this Stoic ideal? It is because we refuse to believe in our power. Nay, of a surety, there is something else which plays a part: it is because we are in love with our vices; we uphold them and prefer to make excuses for them rather than shake them off. We mortals have been endowed with sufficient strength by nature, if only we use this strength, if only we concentrate our powers and rouse them all to help us or at least not to hinder us. The reason is unwillingness, the excuse, inability."
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"Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief."
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"The real problem is not whether life exists after death. The real problem is whether you are alive before death."
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"Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known."
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"Being always right is not always right in the wrong places."
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"What he had loved in Marthe were those evenings when they would walk into the movie theater and men's eyes turned toward her, that moment when he offered her to the world. What he loved in her was his power and his ambition to live. Even his desire, the deepest craving of his flesh, probably derived from this initial astonishment at possessing a lovely body, at mastering and humiliating it."
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"99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters."
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"For God's sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your life! Keep God, get rid of religion! God, Love and Science; the Magnificent Trinity! All you need is these three things!"
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"Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure."
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"Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate."
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"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years."
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"The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves."
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"It's not the end if you're too shy to say 'I love you.' It's only the beginning, because you're first meant to show it anyway."
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"Skill is the bridge between success and great success."
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"Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more."
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"There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!"
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"All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego."
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"I love money because money is power, the power to invite my friends for lunch and pay the bill without expecting anything in return, the power to give twenty dollars to beggar just because I can, the power to offer an expensive remote control helicopter to children and create a huge smile in them, the power to wait for the ones you love to love you back just because you don't need to waste your time like they do."
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"What distances can be explored without God?"
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