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Quotes by Philosopher
"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life."
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"Following the Universal Way means practicing selflessness and extending virtue to the world unconditionally. In this way one not only eliminates the heavy contamination accumulated throughout many lifetimes but may also bring about the possibility of restoring one's original divine nature and become an integral being of the multi-universe."
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"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
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"When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them."
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"What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations."
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"The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry."
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"We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise."
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"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"
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"Don't follow the crowd; let the crowd follow you."
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"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
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"A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us."
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"The moon cannot outshine the sun."
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"Failure changes for the better success for the worse."
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"The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena."
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"The death of dogma is the birth of morality."
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"The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology."
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"Be like stars; instead of cursing the darkness, shine."
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"Some people's self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them."
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"Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love."
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"When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!"
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"In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear."
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"The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism."
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"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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"No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have."
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"Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself."
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"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create."
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"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being."
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"The quickest way to find honey is to follow bees."
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"We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other."
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"The Death's Field is the mirror which allows us the knowledge of the world we living in."
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"Intellect is not speaking and logicising, it is seeing and ascertaining."
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"It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence."
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"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property."
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"There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combinationthey produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations ofthem yield more flavours than can ever be tasted."
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"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."
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"Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination."
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"The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth."
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"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
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"It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace."
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"Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant."
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"Few great things are achieved effortlessly."
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"It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat."
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"There are no names that do not desire fame because we come from God."
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"There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom."
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"I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers."
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"Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for and is therefore right in postulating may be enveloped in a wider order on which she has no claim at all."
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