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Quotes by Philosopher
"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
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"The greatest universe is the one within you."
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"Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly."
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"Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay."
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"Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something."
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"So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas."
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"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
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"Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do."
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"Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord ."
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"The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander."
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"All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis."
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"I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who possessed extreme courage and extreme kindness. We show greatness not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between."
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"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."
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"A slip of the foot is better than a slip of the tongue."
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"War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known."
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"Between friends there is no need of justice."
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"The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case."
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"If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is high time that I take advantage of this and promptly begin with the quadrille--people would presumably laugh a little at him, but in the world of spirit this is very plausible. What, then, is education? I believed it is the course the individual goes through in order to catch up with himself, and the person who will not go through this course is not much helped by being born in the most enlightened age."
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"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."
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"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
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"Words derive their power from the original word."
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"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach."
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"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour."
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"It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very acceptable to the controversial spirit of the schoolmen, which, in the absence of all real knowledge, spent its energy upon mere formulas and words, and that it would be eagerly adopted even in its mutilated Arabian form, and presently established as the centre of all knowledge."
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"Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others."
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"The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice."
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"Contrary to popular belief: Knowing where you are from will not really tell you where you are going. It will merely tell you why you are where you are."
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"If adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more indignant about his fate than despondent or dejected, wishes for death and yet preserves his life without loving it, not from inclination or fear but from duty, then his maxim has moral content."
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"Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love."
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"One will never find in the waterfall of sights anything else than the Illusion of Life, which falls in torrents on the granite rocks of the souls."
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"In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of."
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"To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring - read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring - read a book."
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"Has anyone succeeded in being his own desire?"
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"A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream."
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"What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be."
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"To fear man's judgment more than God's judgment is to fear man more than God."
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
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"Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues."
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"It is ironic that constructive thinkers are often misunderstood as negative, as they differ from those longing for positivity: constructive thinkers have been conditioned to find positive in negative rather than suffering from the negative in negative. Or as Paul the Apostle wrote, 'I have learned the secret to contentment in any and every circumstance.' He was right. Indeed the Lord is our strength, especially under the commandment to love one another. Otherwise we are nothing and easily thrown about by both our own and other people's mind control in a painful, mental, physical desperation to run from every thought, every thing, and every one not seeming so positive or immediately beneficial to us."
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"Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective."
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"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
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"Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself."
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"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
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"There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done."
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