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Quotes by Philosopher
"Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness."
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"Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green."
57
"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."
57
"Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion."
57
"Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt."
56
"To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed."
56
"Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on."
56
"The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression."
56
"There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality."
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"What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on."
55
"I am I plus my circumstances."
55
"All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap."
55
"Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires."
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"One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited."
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"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
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"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!"
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"We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems."
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"This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries."
54
"Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young."
54
"It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used."
54
"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."
54
"To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten."
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"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
54
"The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness."
54
"One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other."
54
"On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance."
54
"Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere."
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"Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation."
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"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."
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"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
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"The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd."
Time,
54
"Accept yourself as you are, and that is the beginning of wisdom."
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"As water drowns but also cleanses, so adversity scalds but also blesses."
53
"It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood."
53
"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
53
"Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil."
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"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority."
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"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."
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"But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only."
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"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."
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