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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not."
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"When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!"
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"Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?"
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"Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could see no further than the present inconveniences, and never thought of providing remedies for future ones, but in proportion as they arose."
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"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
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"I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me."
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"Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man."
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"What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man."
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"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war."
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"True knowledge lies in knowing how to live."
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"If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company."
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"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."
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"If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it."
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"Freedom is what we do with what is done to us."
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"The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever."
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"I can never feel that the Illusion of Life is a truth as long as any illusion reflects unreality; however, even an untruth is a truth in its turn."
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"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter."
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"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness."
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"The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things."
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"There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves."
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"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
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"Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement."
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"The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have."
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"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."
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"You may give them your love but not your thougts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."
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"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."
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"People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing."
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"Some people's theologies come across as blatantly wrong when weighed against what is revealed in Scripture. However God has mercy on those who may be wrong but genuinely seek understanding before seeking themselves."
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"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."
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"When two souls are united as one the universe itself is powerless to separate them."
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"Comparison is a poison that slowly kills your soul."
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"Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways, the point is to change it."
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"He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy."
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"Optimism is the foundation of courage."
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"Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it."
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"Who can hide himself from death or who can embrace the wind?"
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"The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse."
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"Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives."
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"What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?"
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"The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands."
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"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
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"We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the love of truth must be the full and complete motivation. For pride corrupts truth."
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"Don't wait for wisdom to come and rescue you, seek it daily."
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"When your inner light shines your outer world glows."
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