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Quotes by Philosopher
"Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes."
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"Psychology is action not thinking about oneself."
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"And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment."
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"Generally it appears the case that, when faced with all life's problems, the baby, he wants to cry about everything, the child wants to question everything, the teenager wants to rebel against everything, the young adult wants to solve everything, the middle-aged adult wants to protect everything, and the elder wants to accept everything."
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"You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject."
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"Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow."
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"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."
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"The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle."
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"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
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"Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve."
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"Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism."
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"A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten."
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"Where God is like the sun, the Devil is like a raindrop. There is no 'God vs. Satan' because they aren't even that close in power and authority. The former is very patient; the latter is at mercy."
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"Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception."
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"No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India."
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"By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!"
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"A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty."
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"Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all."
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"There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to."
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"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."
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"If the weather is sunny, it is good; if the weather is rainy, it is good; if it is foggy, it is good; if it is stormy, it is good; if it is damn cold, it is good; if it is damn hot, it is good! With a positive attitude of mind, all becomes good!"
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"We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me."
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"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."
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"The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise."
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"There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired."
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"Great thoughts always come from the heart."
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"The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only the material needs, who realizes that men must have food for the body, but is oblivious of the necessity of providing food for the mind."
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"In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them."
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"To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal."
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"The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell."
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"I murmur: "It's a seat," a little like an exorcism. But the word stays on my lips: it refuses to go and put itself on the thing. It stays what it is, with its red plush, thousands of little red paws in the air, all still, little dead paws. This enormous belly turned upward, bleeding, inflated-bloated with all its dead paws, this belly floating in this car, in this grey sky, is not a seat. It could just as well be a dead donkey tossed about in the water, floating with the current, belly in the air in a great grey river, a river of floods; and I could be sitting on the donkey's belly, my feet dangling in the clear water."
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"There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think."
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"To dream on occasion is not dreaming, To love on occasion is not love."
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"The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being."
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"If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character."
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"I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth."
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"The better the wife, the happier the man. The happier the man, the happier the wife."
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"What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction."
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"Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one."
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"Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy."
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"There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly."
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"Rejoice in your own being, and you will never need the approval of others."
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"The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct."
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