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Quotes by Philosopher
"The belief in death leads meditating about life; meanwhile, the belief in life leads you thinking about death."
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"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."
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"All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing."
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"Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid."
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"Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind."
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"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
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"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
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"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."
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"Sow wisdom today, and you will reap success tomorrow."
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"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."
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"But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is."
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"To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils."
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"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
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"You cannot aspire for greatness and fit in at the same time."
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"A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero."
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"To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced."
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"Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy."
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"Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness."
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"The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left the most happy memories."
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"Elevate your mind and you elevate your world."
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"People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth."
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"Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live."
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"Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being."
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"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?"
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"He who matures early lives in anticipation."
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"God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality."
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"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart."
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"There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by alot of sacrifices."
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"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
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"A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty."
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"The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself."
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"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."
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"Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution."
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"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."
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"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."
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"It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outweigh the terrors of death, a man will put an end to his life. But the terrors of death offer considerable resistance; they stand like a sentinel at the gate leading out of this world. Perhaps there is no man alive who would not have already put an end to his life, if this end had been of a purely negative character, a sudden stoppage of existence. There is something positive about it; it is the destruction of the body; and a man shrinks from that, because his body is the manifestation of the will to live."
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"What most counts is not to live but to live aright."
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"Communism is in conflict with human nature."
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"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
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"As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself."
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"Yesterday is but to-day's memory and to-morrow is to-day's dream."
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"Have you ever been further away than yourself? Where?"
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"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures."
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"When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order."
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"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
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