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Quotes by Philosopher
"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else."
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"Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives."
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."
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"The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism."
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"A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious."
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"If love was a sin, God Himself would be in the hottest part of Hell."
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"Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave."
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"The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject."
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"Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery."
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"Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic."
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"Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding."
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"If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all."
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"Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore."
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"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy."
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"If there is ever a magical beauty that can be watched hours with great admiration, and that is the beauty of a strong light falling from the everlasting skies into the heart of the dimness!"
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"To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny."
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"When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable."
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"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."
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"Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear."
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"Life into death- Life's other shape, No rupture, Only crossing."
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"Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind."
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"Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category."
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"Never try to separate soul-mates, destiny might electrocute you."
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"It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation."
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"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."
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"Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions."
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"We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living."
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"Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,But rather a heart inflamed and a soul enchanted.It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a win attached to a claw,But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil.Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in the mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
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"The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application."
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"The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy."
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"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."
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"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
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"All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings there's too much corruption in the world."
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"But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience."
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"When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise themselves in the estimation of others; when we see that not only offices, titles, decorations, but also wealth, nay, even knowledge[1] and art, are striven for only to obtain, as the ultimate goal of all effort, greater respect from one's fellowmen,-is not this a lamentable proof of the extent to which human folly can go?"
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"Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving."
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"Rebellion is the very essence of meditation. Meditation means destroying the mind totally."
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"Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences."
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"Let life flow through you effortlessly. Don't be a resistance to life."
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"Great tests precede great blessings."
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"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."
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"If you can't get what you want from life, see if you're withholding something from someone else, because you won't get what you want unless you start giving away what you have to those that need it. Selfishness is incompatible with abundance and going to Church won't help you escape this Divine law."
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"Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist."
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"We only understand that which already within us."
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