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Quotes by Philosopher
"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind."
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"When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV."
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"Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves."
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"A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
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"It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: "Close the window, it's too beautiful."
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"Faith is irrational, which is why those who exercise it are rewarded irrationally."
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"Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it."
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"One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured."
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"Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world."
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"If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!"
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"Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you."
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"A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes."
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"Without seeing the whole picture and without knowing the whole story of a man's life, our judgements about him will most probably be wrong and unfair!"
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"You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all."
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"To silence criticism is to silence freedom."
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"We must powder our wigs, that is why so many poor people have no bread."
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"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
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"It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false."
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"Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object."
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"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."
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"I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy."
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"Your deepest scars tell the world of your greatest triumphs."
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"The hen that lays the most eggs deserves the most food."
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"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
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"A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself."
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"Heresy would like to think of itself as 'invented Truth'. But of course, all Reason and Logic would agree that no man can ever create Truth; he can only discover it. If heresy were ever at all beneficial, God would use it really to bring one right back to Truth, as countless 'inventions' have brought men to discovery."
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"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."
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"India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples."
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"People's envy shows how unhappy they feel, their constant attention to the doings of others how bored they are."
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"One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it."
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"An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there."
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"Philosophy can make people sick."
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"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."
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"High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible."
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"Evil report carries further than any applause."
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"An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle."
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"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
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"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."
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"Let go of rousing speechand identification with thoughtsUntil your endyou will never be jaded."
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"Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression."
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"You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you."
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"Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel."
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