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Quotes by Philosopher
"The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them."
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"In her 202s, a woman's breasts double her self-esteem. In her 402s, they halve it."
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"If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom."
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"Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed."
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"When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long."
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"Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check."
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"A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim of evil men or turns to evil desires (the latter sometimes even betrayal). Because of this, too, he is and must be well-acquainted with and trained in the strengths of hope and the gentleness of forgiveness and mercy."
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"Your greatest strength is in your ability to remain still."
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"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world."
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"Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does."
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"I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it."
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"Those small moments of pleasure men get from sin, from defying God, are perhaps grace - His final gift still to those who hard-heartedly choose to deny Him. Godless men may blatantly enjoy offending God not because they are free-spirited, but on the whole because He moves them to enjoy it. Sin is, in a sense, still touching God: for a strike involves a touch. Perhaps this is His divine kindness. Faithful men find everlasting fulfillment in His good company; but godless men who strike at the Author of Joy, who are completely ignorant of the greater, for them - and by God's love for His enemies - there is yet this small recoil known as 'pleasure' before the fall."
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"The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God."
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"Excellent things are rare."
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"Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding."
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"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
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"Illiterate people should only be charged for the photographs, when buying a newspaper."
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"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen few in pursuit of the goal."
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"The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies."
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"People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit."
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"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be."
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"The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility."
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"We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it."
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"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
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"Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being."
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"Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion."
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"The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit."
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"A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed."
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"The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated."
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"Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"
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"Two forces create eternity " a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale."
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"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes."
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"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."
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"I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world."
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"As for me all I know is that I know nothing."
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"And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others."
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"It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object."
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