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Quotes by Philosopher
"Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
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"Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here."
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"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
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"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything."
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"I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music, but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it."
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"Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness."
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"The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it."
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"The streets are a poor kid's PlayStation."
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"[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
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"Analysis does not transform consciousness."
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"With what can we feed the soul in the world of emptiness other than with prayer?"
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"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business."
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"Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably."
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"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption."
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"I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?"
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"The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his very nose."
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"Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire."
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"No man is free until he s a master of himself!!"
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"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."
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"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."
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"I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow."
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"Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form."
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"Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also."
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"A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it."
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"The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself, it gives life to others as it transforms."
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"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
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"There are many secrets, don't try to resolve them all."
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"The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will."
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"Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones."
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"In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play."
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"For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free."
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"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
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"To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics."
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"So you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long. For suppose you should think that a man had had a long voyage who had been caught in a raging storm as he left harbour, and carried hither and thither and driven round and round in a circle by the rage opposing winds. He did not have a long voyage, just a long tossing about."
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"Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it."
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"The one who did not understood that his time's root supports his life tree was born in vain."
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"When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction."
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"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."
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"Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure."
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"The beauty all around you is insignificant in comparison to the beauty within you."
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"The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other."
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"The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter."
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