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Quotes by Philosopher
"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."
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"A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings."
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"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching."
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"Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."
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"Become like a river - always flowing, never stagnant."
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"The future is made of the same stuff as the present."
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"A bird does not fly because of the wind around it, but because of the strength within it."
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"Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions."
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"If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force."
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"Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within."
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"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."
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"These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate."
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"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."
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"Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker."
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"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults."
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"The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief."
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"It is difficult to fill a broken vessel, and impossible to fill a leaking one."
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"Aloneness is not loneliness. Aloneness is finding your own space."
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"Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed."
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"It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value."
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"Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions."
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"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
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"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."
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"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
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"It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational."
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"Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center."
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"Happy is the man who is nothing."
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"Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim. It is absurd to look upon the enormous amount of pain that abounds everywhere in the world, and originates in needs and necessities inseparable from life itself, as serving no purpose at all and the result of mere chance. Each separate misfortune, as it comes, seems, no doubt, to be something exceptional; but misfortune in general is the rule.I know of no greater absurdity than that propounded by most systems of philosophy in declaring evil to be negative in its character. Evil is just what is positive; it makes its own existence felt."
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"Learn to be happy with yourself first, then happiness will follow you everywhere."
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"Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power."
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"He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof."
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"The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards."
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"There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice."
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"Don't lies in the end put us on the path to truth? And don't my stories, true or false, point to the same conclusion? Don't they have the same meaning? So, what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in either case, they signify what I have been and what I am? One can sometimes see more clearly in a person who is lying than in one who is telling the truth. Like light, truth dazzles. Untruth, on the other hand, is a beautiful dusk that enhances everything."
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"He who despises a poor man's wisdom has turned away great riches."
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"So long as the anti-militarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function no moral equivalent of war analogous as one might say to the mechanical equivalent of hate so long they fail to realize the full equities of the situation."
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"To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death."
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"Too fair to worship, too divine to love."
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"The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties or passions must entail, one harvests those quarters of an hour of the deepest immersion in oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the most potent refreshing draught from the deepest well of his own being."
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