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Quotes by Philosopher
"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."
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"Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur."
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
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"How did I picture the life after the grave?I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it."
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"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
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"Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation."
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"It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems."
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"The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt."
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"Some people are so sexually unattractive that the thought of masturbating turns them off."
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"Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't."
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"As we realise that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest."
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"The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed."
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"Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad."
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"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian."
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"Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also."
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"In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many."
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"One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer."
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"The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities."
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"If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!"
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"Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic."
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"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
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"The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things."
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"Have nuts and be nuts."
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"Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability."
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"In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will."
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"The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed."
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"There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."
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"Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man."
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"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation."
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"When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere."
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"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
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"Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns."
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"Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank."
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"Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption."
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"Imagination sees the complete reality, - it is where past, present and future meet... Imagination is limited neither to the reality which is apparent - nor to one place. It lives everywhere. It is at a centre and feels the vibrations of all the circles within which east and west are virtually included. Imagination is the life of mental freedom. It realizes what everything is in its many aspects ... Imagination does not uplift: we don't want to be uplifted, we want to be more completely aware."
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"The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression."
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"That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes -- the legal subordination of one sex to the other -- is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other."
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"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct."
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"Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever."
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
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