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Quotes by Philosopher
"Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled."
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"The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself."
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"The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility."
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"Believe in yourself, for the universe believes in you."
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"Dreams are our only geography-our native land."
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"Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."
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"The Infinity sign goes round and round without an end, and true love bears the same pattern."
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"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
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"Comparison is a disease, one of the greatest diseases."
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"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."
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"And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. We were forced to despair. We were cut off from the world because to each moment clung a whole mass of mortal images. For five years the earth has not seen a single morning without death agonies, a single evening without prisons, a noon without slaughter."
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"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
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"What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement."
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"Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance."
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"Our big mistake in modern intellectualism is first and foremost its lack of nuance. We have made science synonymous with atheism - a presupposed conception and yet, another means to non sequiturs - and therefore, to a number of enthusiasts determined to go the further, anti-theism. Hereby let us observe that science has long served best and should be, if none other, the one discipline, if at all possible, free of potential ideology, pro-religious or anti-religious, and/or biased presupposition in order to maintain the true authenticity and the full reliability of its nature."
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"All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it."
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"The sweeter the fruit a tree bears the greater the number of birds that eat from it."
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"All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong, he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm."
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"So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts."
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"Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it."
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"There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it, the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it."
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"The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense."
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"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue."
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"It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation."
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"Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'"
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"To be blind momentarily when light hits your eyes is better than to be blind permanently when darkness hits your soul."
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"The Blessing #1: May your eyes be profitable, may your ears be dutiful, may your tongue be insightful, may your hands be successful. May your mind be fruitful, may your heart be blissful, may your soul be joyful, may your life be peaceful."
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"Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in his ears sinister prophecies of coming catastrophe.In this way arose feudal Socialism; half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half menace of the future, at times by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart's core, but always ludicrous in its effects, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history."
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"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."
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"What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?"
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"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
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"The discipline of desire is the background of character."
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"Anything built on doubt is rocky. Anything built on fear is shaky. Anything built on hate is unsteady. Anything built on wisdom is trustworthy. Anything built on faith is sturdy. Anything built on love is mighty."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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"One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart."
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"Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves."
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"The more we love God, the more unpleasant sin becomes."
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"Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto."
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"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
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"One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people."
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"Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence."
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"Here is your great soul-the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself."
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"Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same."
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"Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them."
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"Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause."
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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
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"Plurality should not be posited without necessity."
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