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Quotes by Philosopher
"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."
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"Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer."
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"In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech."
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"I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off."
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"El sabio puede cambiar de opinion. El necio, nunca."
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"Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed."
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"To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand."
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"An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God."
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"We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product."
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"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not."
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"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."
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"Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm."
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"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room."
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"When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy."
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"The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed."
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"The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles."
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"We do not have feelings which change us, but feelings that suggest to us the idea of change. Thus love does not purge us of selfishness, but makes us aware of it and gives us the idea of a distant country where this selfishness will disappear."
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"Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes."
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"If you understand yourself, you have understood the whole existence."
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"Sunbathe from within."
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"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."
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"Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
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"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
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"We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible."
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"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands."
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"The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray."
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"Laughter is a bridge between the human and the divine."
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"Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water."
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"I go, I go away, I walk, I wander, and everywhere I go I bear my shell with me, I remain at home in my room, among my books, I do not approach an inch nearer to Marrakech or Timbuktu. Even if I took a train, a boat, or a motor-bus, if I went to Morocco for my holiday, if I suddenly arrived at Marrakech, I should be always in my room, at home. And if I walked in the squares and in the sooks, if I gripped an Arab's shoulder, to feel Marrakech in his person - well, that Arab would be at Marrakech, not I : I should still be seated in my room, placid and meditative as is my chosen life, two thousand miles away from the Moroccan and his burnoose. In my room. Forever."
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"Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous."
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"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."
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"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it."
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"To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself."
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"...It is necessary for the average citizen, if he wishes to make a living, to avoid incurring the hostility of certain big men. And these big men have an outlook - religious, moral, and political - with which they expect their employees to agree, at least outwardly."
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"Good is not always good."
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"Your mind is your world. Your heart is your nature. Your soul is your universe. Your life is your creation."
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"For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another."
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"If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attachedto you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless."
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"A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly."
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"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."
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"A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses, a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings."
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"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."
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"She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence."
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"We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action."
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"A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold, the gist of the matter is to show silver as silver."
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