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Quotes by Philosopher
"The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first."
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"Turbulence means nothing if God is the pilot."
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"The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!"
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"When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself."
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"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude."
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"Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined."
Want,
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"Love is blind, and therefore not responsible for whoever she bumps into."
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"Meditation is mind's vacation!"
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"Like all great things which then become fashions, science, as now the universal stamp of approval, probably receives more abuse than any other field of study. Glaze the word itself over whatever vague ideology one may presume ratified, no matter the degree of pseudo-science or lack of scholarly credibility packaged within, and the many will consume it like gravy on a feast. My thought for the time is that as the promise of true science increases, so shall rise its many more superficial counterparts as provided by the agenda-bound trendies and hyper-ambitious laypersons to boot."
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"Don't burn your bridges until you build better ones."
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"You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him."
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"When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin."
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"If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet."
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"I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be."
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"Debate, but do not argue. Challenge, but do not force your opinions. To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss. To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain."
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"To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."
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"Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life."
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"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."
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"Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them."
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"If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness."
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"Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one's fellow man, or merely say evil of one's neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman."
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"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."
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"Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one."
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"The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece."
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"Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again."
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"Air freshener is man's pitiful attempt to have his food smell as good, after digestion, as they did, before ingestion."
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"It is in vain to chase two birds at the same time, even if you have a thousand legs."
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"My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues."
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"Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die."
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"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."
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"No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it."
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"Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections."
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"No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already."
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"With the exception of a gun, starvation is the only thing that is capable of making an insane man lose his mind."
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"Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures."
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"When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true."
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"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."
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"We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind."
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"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention."
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"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."
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"It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it."
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"When the wind blows, the weak are carried away by it, the strong resist it, and the wise manipulate it."
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"The most complicated skill is to be simple."
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"Your real life begins the moment you stop seeking approval from others."
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"Where there is no property there is no injustice."
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"Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire."
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"The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation."
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"When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing."
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"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."
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"Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress."
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