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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming."
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"See more than your eyes can see. Hear more than your ears can hear. Do more than your hands can do. Go further than your feet can go."
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"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly."
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"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity."
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"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."
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"To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach."
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"To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit, and (3) a few psychology books."
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"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do."
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"The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle."
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"Knowing your strengths is intelligence, knowing your weakness is wisdom."
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"Pain is a gift. Instead of avoiding it, learn to embrace it and grow from it."
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"It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."
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"The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?"
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"A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues."
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"To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness."
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"God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction."
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"It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves."
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"An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing."
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"We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void."
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"The fewer our wants the nearer we resemble the gods."
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"The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant."
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"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
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"It's the level that allows us each to live our own chosen lives. But I notice not everyone agrees with the primary importance of that level, and I try to account for how they don't."
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"If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you."
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"Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself."
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"At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things."
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"I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds."
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"Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself."
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"Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage"."
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"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
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"As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost."
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"The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society."
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"A quality wife guarantees you a quality life."
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"When you look in the mirror and see your reflection, your eyes are open; when you look in the mirror and see God, your soul is open."
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"The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all."
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"A bird must overcome its fear of heights before it can rule the skies."
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"You can force the people to obey, you cannot force them to understand."
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"We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time."
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"When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly."
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"There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God."
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"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools."
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