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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"A star doesn't need words to tell the world what it does, it just shines."
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"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."
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"Don't run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy you."
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"Malice drinks one-half of its own poison."
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"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."
Fate,
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"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
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"It may be that no religious reconciliation with the absolute totality of things is possible. Some evils, indeed, are ministerial to higher forms of good; but it may be that there are forms of evil so extreme as to enter into no good system whatsoever."
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"A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy."
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"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
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"The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
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"The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society."
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"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
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"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses."
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"Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves."
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"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor."
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"He with the cleanest clothes isn't necessarily the cleanest."
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
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"If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists."
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"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."
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"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin."
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"Unrequited love is a billion times less intolerable than unrequited hate."
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"The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness such a state like the region above the moon is always clear and serene."
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"For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else's face."
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"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."
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"The sky does not despair when a star falls, it makes room for a new one."
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"A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century."
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"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."
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"What the wise see eyes closed is greater than what the ignorant see both eyes open."
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"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."
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"Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart."
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"For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought."
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"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
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"(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach."
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"It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last."
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"When the lost doesn't want to be found, he cannot be regarded as the lost!"
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"There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!"
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"In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!"
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"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."
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"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art."
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"Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved."
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