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Quotes by Philosopher
"The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality."
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"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
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"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers."
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"The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at times in order to empower it. By this he actually values his life more than the man who fears losing his life. It is much like leaping from a window in order to avoid a fire yet in that most crucial moment knowing that God will appear to catch you."
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"It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it."
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"Life is but a sleep disturbed By dreaming."
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"Tragedy is not the second face of the life, but it is the very first face of it!"
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"In a democracy, when the traffic light is red for freedoms, don't ever stop, don't ever wait! Refuse the red light, ignore it, break the rules and move forward! It is always legitimate to challenge fascism for every nation in the world as long as this challenge is nonviolent! Because violence means using the same vulgar, the same evil methods of fascism! Don't behave like a dog when fighting against a dog!"
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"If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos!"
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"If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey."
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"Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait."
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"Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection."
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"A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny!"
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"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason."
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"Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody."
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"Chances are that whatever that you are worried about-be it a person or a thing-isn't worried about you."
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"Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."
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"I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist."
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"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
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"If a woman's vagina was hell fire, then alot of sex maniacs would prefer to spend their eternity in hell."
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"If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay positive in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay positive in impossible situations, you are great."
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"Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort."
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"Live each moment as if it is the only moment you have."
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"Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical."
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"If man was a logical creature: his last suspect-namely, his mouth-was going to be the first; whenever he thinks that someone, or, something is smelly."
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"It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason."
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"Faith is a question of eyesight, even the blind can see that."
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"I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go."
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"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."
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"Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles."
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"Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion."
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"In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent."
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"The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves."
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"Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment."
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"Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years."
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"Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
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"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."
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"World history is a court of judgment."
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"The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong."
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"Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune."
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"Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!"
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"That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed."
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"Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it."
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"That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support."
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"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."
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