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Quotes by Philosopher
"Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one."
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"The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies."
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"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him."
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"A number is still very accurate, but its role is changed.In the changed role this number enriches the silence."
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"It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that this in itself is bearable enough; for we do not weep at their being absent or intending to be absent during their lifetime, although when they leave our sight we have no more pleasure in them. What tortures us, therefore, is an idea."
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"Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires."
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"Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light."
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"The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor."
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"We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity."
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"The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence."
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"There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea."
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"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
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"An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious manner.."
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"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."
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"The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it."
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"Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it."
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"As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree."
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"Men are not influenced by things but by their thoughts about things."
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"For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad."
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"If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences."
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"Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself."
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"Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy."
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"I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down."
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"It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting."
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"One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage."
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"Revolutions are not about trifles but spring from trifles."
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"Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men."
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"The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!"
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"Never force a man to do your wish, but let them wish to do it by force."
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"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."
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"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."
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"Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other's vices."
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"There is so much sttuborn hope in a human heart."
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"The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward."
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"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."
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"But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows."
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"A man dies as often as he loses his friends."
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"Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them."
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"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."
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"No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit."
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"All grand thoughts come from the heart."
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"The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes."
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
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"Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things."
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