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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection."
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"Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity."
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"Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose."
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"He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign."
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"The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men."
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"Be yourself. Never try to be someone else, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself."
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"The more you celebrate life, the more life celebrates you."
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"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."
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"As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life."
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"Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."
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"It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures."
God,
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"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."
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"The perfection of art is to conceal art."
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"Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth."
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"The severity of the laws prevents their execution."
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"Celebrate! Celebration is the foundation of gratitude."
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"Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards."
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"Don't obsess over having the 'latest' version of a product. For there was a time that the previous version was the latest."
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"Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed."
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"Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies."
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"Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations."
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"Man is a social animal."
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"The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth."
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"Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer."
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"In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible."
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"The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at."
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"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something."
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"He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself."
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"Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act!"
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"Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
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"Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED."
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"I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology."
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"Critics are loud, but success is louder."
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"The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others."
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"Less fear, more courage. Less doubt, more faith. Less talking, more action. Less ignorance, more knowledge."
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"Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people."
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"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."
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"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
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"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man."
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"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."
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"My love consumes me. Only my voice is left, a voice which has fallen in love with you whispers to you everywhere that I love you. Oh! Does it weary you to hear this voice? Everywhere it enfolds you; like an inexhaustible, shifting surround, I place my transparently reflected soul about your pure, deep being."
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"In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity."
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"Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit."
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