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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing."
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"Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event."
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"Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation."
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"In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying."
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"Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment."
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"I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment."
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"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common."
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"Work hard, and you will earn good rewards. Work smart, and you will earn great rewards. Work hard and work smart, and you will earn extraordinary rewards."
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"Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being."
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"Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around."
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"A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom."
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"What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures."
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"If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect."
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"You don't tell a boy that he is a boy. You simply act like a man."
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"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
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"If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer."
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"Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken get to work on that."
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"Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond."
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"Thus he has two standpoints from which he can consider himself...: first, as belonging to the world of sense, under the laws of nature (heteronomy), and, second, as belonging to the intelligible world under laws which, independent of nature, are not empirical but founded only on reason."
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"There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it."
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"If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death."
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"Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared."
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"The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners."
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"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown."
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"Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory."
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"Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing."
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"Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth."
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"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."
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"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket."
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"What river can flood over the mountains of your love?"
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"The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?"
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"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."
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"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us."
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"Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy."
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"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."
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"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."
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"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."
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"Search for the stranger inside you, forgotten even by your death."
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"In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay."
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"For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep."
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"Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century."
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"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other."
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"As to the roaming of sages,They move in utter emptiness,Let their minds meander in the great nothingness;They run beyond conventionAnd go through where there is no gateway.They listen to the soundlessAnd look at the formless,They are not constrained by societyAnd not bound to its customs."
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