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Quotes by Philosopher
"Unborn eternity does not die, existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence."
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"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."
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"All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books."
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"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."
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"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
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"Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic."
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"Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it."
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"Heaven's Tao is impartial,yet those who follow its compassionate waywill always be nourished."
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"I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer."
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"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."
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"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought."
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"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room."
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"I recreate myself, that is my only power."
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"How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator."
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"For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love."
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"That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt."
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"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."
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"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself."
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"No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world."
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"Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write."
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"Reason of itself, independent on all experience, ordains what ought to take place, that accordingly actions of which perhaps the world has hitherto never given an example, the feasibility even if which might be very much doubted by one who founds everything on experience, are nevertheless inflexibly commanded by reason; that, for example, even though there might never yet have been a sincere friend, yet not a whit the less is pure sincerity in friendship required of every man."
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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
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"The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth."
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"...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment."
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"Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow."
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"A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness."
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"And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man "whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation."
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"I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding.""
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"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."
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"There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day."
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"Love's light conquers hate's darkness."
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster."
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"I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill."
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"A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick.A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick."
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"Every battle is won before it is fought."
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"I take all knowledge to be my province."
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"We only live if we dream."
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"There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on man's approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort."
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"Love - a grave mental disease."
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"If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. Perhaps that is a little strange, yes, but in all honesty, I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a smug aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo."
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"A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present."
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"When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open."
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"Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it."
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"Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf."
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