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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable."
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"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."
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"I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do."
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"The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering."
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"Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door."
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"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."
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"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."
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"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness."
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"The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations."
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"The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos."
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"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
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"He has a way of drawing His loves back to Himself. A psyche separated from the peace (and the freedom) of Christ is liable to entangle itself in all sorts of folly and vanity, or confused witchcraft. On the one side it will preach, 'Empowerment!' But on the other it will scream, 'Oppression!' Yes, you now have the power to be oppressed: because as long as you look to be a victim, you will find yourself to be a victim."
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"Man cannot be homophobic without having concerned himself with another's sex life."
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"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life."
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"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."
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"The only way to survive after death is by breathing life into the universe before death."
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"The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth."
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"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men."
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"A man can do as he will, but not will as he will."
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"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."
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"What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?"
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"From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization."
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"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."
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"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."
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"Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that."
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"Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep."
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"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
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"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied."
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"If you know the why, you can live any how."
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"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not."
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"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."
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"It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them."
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"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."
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"Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion."
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"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."
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"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate."
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"How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."
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"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."
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"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
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"It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them."
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"As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe."
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"Your deepest valleys lead you to your highest mountaintops."
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"It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite."
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"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."
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