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Quotes by Philosopher
"Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength."
120
"The first professor you meet in life is your mother; the second is hardship, and the last is death."
120
"The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence."
119
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
118
"The more you know yourself, the less you depend on external validation."
117
"A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences."
116
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."
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116
"Dance like no one is watching, love like you have never been hurt."
116
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
116
"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."
115
"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
115
"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."
115
"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."
114
"Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived."
112
"Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being."
112
"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
112
"In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny."
109
"The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul."
109
"You must be a light unto yourself."
108
"It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence."
107
"When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent?Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind."
107
"And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know."
107
"What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness."
106
"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."
105
"One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited."
104
"Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar."
103
"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake."
103
"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something, and it is only such love that can know freedom."
102
"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."
102
"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."
102
"What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms " in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins."
101
"To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts."
101
"Accept yourself as you are, and that is the beginning of wisdom."
101
"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."
100
"Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society."
100
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."
99
"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether."
99
"The past is no more and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don't exist."
98
"All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap."
98
"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world."
98
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
98
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