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Quotes by Philosopher
"Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking."
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"Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack."
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"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."
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"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
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"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
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"Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones."
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"When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person."
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"They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations."
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"Camus said there is only really one serious philosophical question, which is whether or not to commit suicide. I think there are four or five serious philosophical questions:The first one is: Who started it?The second is: Are we going to make it?The third is: Where are we going to put it?The fourth is: Who's going to clean up?And the fifth: Is it serious?Out Of Your Mind (2004), Audio lecture 1: The Nature of Consciousness: A Game That's Worth The Candle."
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"Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean."
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"However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him."
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"Nature has given to men one tongue but two ears that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak."
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"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself."
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"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
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"The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful, the best occupations are the least forced."
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"Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test."
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"You will never be free as long as there remains one Russian soldier in Poland and your freedom will always be threatened as long as Russia interferes in your affairs."
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"When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person."
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"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
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"A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center."
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"The less men think, the more they talk."
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"It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me."
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"From nothing comes everything."
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"Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days!"
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"If the other person injures you you may forget the injury but if you injure him you will always remember."
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"Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle."
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"They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the less capable they were of breaking it."
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"Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing."
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"Reason begets honesty, and honesty, if given its head, begets confidence; so consequently, there is a sort of grand authority in the stances of those who know why they are standing."
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"An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear."
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"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."
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"The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal."
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"Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority."
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"What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos."
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"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn."
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"If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses."
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"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application."
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
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"For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor."
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"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion."
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