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Quotes by Philosopher
"An ounce of joy is the equivalent of a ton of happiness."
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"Conscious minds can, at the most, comprehend that the whole idea of a 'God' is his superiority, his omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience; and therefore, at the least, desire him, someone far greater than themselves."
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"If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!"
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"Postman's bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes!"
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"Shine your light so bright, and no one will need a telescope to see you."
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"The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them."
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"The hotter the furnace the finer the gold."
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"We can't see and we can't reach the true frontiers of our ignorance, we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge."
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"A wise man is a student though he is a teacher."
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"If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!"
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"Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!"
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"Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases."
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"Behind our wise words lie rare jewels; behind our reckless ones, bombs."
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"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus CAsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order."
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"Make your own luck, and then share it with others."
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"On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness."
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"Find a right and a beautiful idea, stick to it tightly and drag it strongly from your mind to the reality!"
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"It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on."
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"The most upsetting thing about Society's attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman."
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"You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person."
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"Necessity... the mother of invention."
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"To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites."
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"Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice."
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"What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose."
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"An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!"
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"Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before."
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"Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction."
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"The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows."
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"A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else."
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"Your enemies are not to be destroyed, grant them longevity to witness your success."
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"What are you waiting for, you little mortal! You have no time! Get up and get out and do something to protect your miraculous existence!"
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"Never let the world take your smile, all it will give you in return is a frown."
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"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
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"All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!"
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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
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"The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams; finally, after it has for a long time lain modestly in our heart, it takes complete possession of us, filling our eyes with tears, our hearts with longing. What do we long for when we see beauty? To be beautiful. We think much happiness must be connected with it. But that is an error."
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"If there is wisdom in your mind, prove it; joy in your heart, share it; love in your soul, show it; good in your life, impart it."
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"Have the mind of a swam, the heart of a lion, the tongue of a serpent, the flair of a swam, and the soul of a dove."
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"There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!"
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"To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides."
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"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."
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"It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence."
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"Stars do not shine on their friends alone."
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"Before you ask God to bless you, give Him a reason to."
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"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."
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"God generously helps to those who try to do their best without asking God's help!"
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"It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time."
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"Lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly places."
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"Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan!"
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