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Quotes by Philosopher
"If you are good, they say you are weak."
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"Virtue is reason which has become energy."
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"An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them."
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"Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory."
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"You learn more from your tears than your smiles."
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"To see the hidden, you hide yourself too!"
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"No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't."
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"The distance you walk on water depends on how great your faith is."
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"What is a great success? You haven't hurt anyone? That is a great success! You haven't ignored any person? That is a great success! You haven't lied? That is a great success! You haven't deceived a person? That's a great success! And now you see how very difficult to have a real success!"
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"If you guide others out of the dark, you are a star, even if no one knows your name."
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"The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition."
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"Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you."
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"Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it."
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"When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter moves the nature of godliness from the King to our servant to a slave, a deduction into the realm of selfhood and then the lower, slavehood. It's a spiritual mathematics in that men who need God in his godhood are humble yet strong and spiritually ambitious while men who need a slave in their selfhood are ultimately paralyzed and will remain paralyzed."
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"You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture.Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you.And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver , and an instrument of giving.For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you , who deem yourself a giver , is but a witness."
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"The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds."
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"It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena."
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"Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding."
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"Looking up at the stars only proves you admire them, but shining your light proves you are like them."
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"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."
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"Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts."
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"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."
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"Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation."
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"Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall."
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"Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies."
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"Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate."
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"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse."
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"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."
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"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things."
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"There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought."
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"The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens."
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"Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own."
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"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers."
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"Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority."
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"It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment."
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"The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one."
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"True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is."
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"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
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"Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one."
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"Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again."
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"He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt."
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"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."
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"The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness."
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"Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations."
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"The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views."
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"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life."
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