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Quotes by Philosopher
"So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's."
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"Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin."
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"The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great."
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"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."
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"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."
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"I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded."
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"I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun."
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"In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve."
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"Twitter gives people an illusionary sense of leadership."
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"For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it."
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"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."
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"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite."
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"You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him find it within himself."
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"Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities."
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"Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain."
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"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."
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"Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it."
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"In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language."
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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others."
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"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."
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"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described."
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"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain."
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"Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!"
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"Discipline does not mean suppression and control nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'."
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"Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity."
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"Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life."
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"We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
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"A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true."
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"Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes."
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"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."
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"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"
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"Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences."
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"Have friends. 'Tis a second existence."
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"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings."
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"In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs."
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"Taking a leap of faith is better than taking a leap of doubt."
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"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."
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"The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong."
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"The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before."
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"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."
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"The decent man and the lover holds back even when he could obtain what he wishes. To win this silent consent is to make use of all the violence permitted in love. To read it in the eyes, to see it in the ways in spite of the mouth's denial, that is the art of he who knows how to love. If he then completes his happiness, he is not brutal, he is decent. He does not insult chasteness; he respects it; he serves it."
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"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."
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