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Quotes by Philosopher
"We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents."
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"You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam."
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"I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me, I see Him all around me."
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"When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state."
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"Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence."
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"Everything comes at the right time, but if the right time is too late to be patient, go earlier before it becomes too late."
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"A rainbow earns its colors in the storm."
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"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish."
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"It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system."
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"Some women would not have contracted an STD or STDs had they not been on the pill."
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"A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself."
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"I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise."
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"What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos."
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"There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other."
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"Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin."
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"The easiest way to remember your future wife's birthday is to marry her on Super Bowl Sunday."
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"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."
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"There is no original truth, only original error."
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"Inner beauty magnifies outer beauty."
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"Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed."
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"A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned."
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"Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues."
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"The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them."
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"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."
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"Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest."
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"What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?"
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"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
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"Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things."
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"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage."
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"When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'."
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"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid."
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"These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try."
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"God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."
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"A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself."
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"To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia."
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"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."
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"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."
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"Now that we are all so smart, we don't easily find resolutions."
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"You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome."
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"Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech."
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"But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain."
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"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power."
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