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Quotes by Philosopher
"Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established."
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"Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt."
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"Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools."
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"The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another."
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"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions."
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"A star does not compete with other stars around it, it just shines."
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"An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being."
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"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people."
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"Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture)."
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"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth."
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"The petty man wants to use God for himself, the ambitious man wants God to use him for God."
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"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows."
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"Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies."
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"After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us."
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"Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him."
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"One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered."
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"The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!"
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"How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?"
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"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."
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"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."
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"Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being."
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"In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great."
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"You are treading your path of greatness: now it must call up all your courage that there is no longer a path behind you!You are treading your path of greatness: no one shall steal after you here! Your foot itself has extinguished the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility."
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"What once were vices are now manners."
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"Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard."
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"The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him."
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"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."
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"We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties."
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"An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else."
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"We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service."
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"The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful."
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"Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar."
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"If you think that you are living in a stupid country, you can be sure that you are being governed by the most stupid people!"
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"It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one."
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"Freedom is not about having no limitations, but about rising above them."
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"Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way."
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"A realist is a slave to reality."
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"You are not separate from existence; you are existence."
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"When a caterpillar looks in the mirror, he sees a butterfly."
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"We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities."
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"He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?"
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"Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite."
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"There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."
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"It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption."
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"At the centre of all these noble races we cannot fail to see the blond beast of prey, the magnificent blond beast avidly prowling round for spoil and victory; this hidden centre needs release from time to time, the beast must out again, must return to the wild: - Roman, Arabian, Germanic, Japanese nobility, Homeric heroes, Scandinavian Vikings - in this requirement they are all alike. It was the noble races which left the concept of 'barbarian' in their traces wherever they went; even their highest culture betrays the fact that they were conscious of this and indeed proud of it."
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"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself."
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