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Quotes by Philosopher
"Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome."
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"Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed."
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"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."
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"All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.'I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all one's responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view."
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"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."
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"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."
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"We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed."
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"Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness."
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"A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed."
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"Wisdom is finer than pearls."
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"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."
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"I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known."
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"With regard to sleep and waking, we must consider what they are: whether they are peculiar to soul or to body, or common to both; and if common, to what part of soul or body the appertain: further, from what cause it arises that they are atributes of animals, and whether all animals share in them both, or some partake of the one only, others of the other only, or some partake of neither and some of both."
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"The joke of our time is the suicide of intention."
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"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility."
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"Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is closest to the perfection of emptiness."
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"No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have."
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"The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed."
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"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him."
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"A small sharp axe can cut down more trees than a big dull one."
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"Seeds, not doubting their potential, rise and become forests."
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"Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense."
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"In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God."
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"Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility."
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"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head."
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"Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death."
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"Moderation sees itself as beautiful, it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking."
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"That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it."
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"They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences."
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"Pretentiousness isn't always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don't mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the intellect whereas the latter appeals to the heart."
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"Walk and love. We're walking in love. For the walk of love."
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"You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you."
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"Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius."
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"We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord."
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"A man's character is his guardian divinity."
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"But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"
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"When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them."
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"Education is what they equip you with, just in case your dream doesn't workout."
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"When it comes to moral dilemmas and matters of discerning right justice, my natural sympathy so often happens to land on the opposite end of that of most of my peers. I sometimes wonder if this is nothing more than the misguidedness and the wickedness of my own heart. I wonder other times if God wires some of us in such a way so that fair discourse might then be provided, so that honest and unbiased, due process is ultimately more likely to be carried out. Perhaps it is all necessary for variance of perception, for mindful debate: that the heart is meant to create a bit of bias on certain issues; as between one another, they weigh and balance. For not all hearts are the same."
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"Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics."
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"Faith moves mountains, intelligence goes over them, wisdom goes around them, but love levels them."
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"Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human."
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"If you are good, they say you are weak."
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