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Quotes by Philosopher
"A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive."
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"Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers."
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"Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers."
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"Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction."
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"So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices."
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"Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended."
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"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."
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"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect."
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"In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts."
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"We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality."
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"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds."
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"Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond you."
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"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."
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"Only what is below you tries to pull you down."
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"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."
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"Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry."
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"The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs."
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"Become like a child - innocent, pure, spontaneous, playful."
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"The universe is not outside of you; you are the universe."
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"Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments."
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"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."
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"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."
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"The intuition of free will gives us the truth."
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"Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence."
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"If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?"
God,
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"In early youth as we contemplate our coming life we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin."
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"In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'."
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"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes."
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"Celebrate yourself; there is no one like you in the whole existence."
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"The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct."
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
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"Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle."
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"Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind."
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"A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth."
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"Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude."
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"An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself."
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"No one is superior, no one is inferior, but no one is equal either. People are simply unique."
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"Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret."
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"Don't run with the crowd, fly with the stars."
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"Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry."
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