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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results."
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"He who let's the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation."
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"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
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"Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out."
Men,
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"The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself."
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"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it."
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"I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all."
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"The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction."
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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
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"If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness."
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"Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment."
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"A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand."
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"Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee."
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"Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character."
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"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s."
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"Nobody has ever been beyond his own Illusion of Life."
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"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it."
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"To know what questions may reasonably be asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity and insight. For if a question is absurd in itself and calls for unnecessary answers, it not only brings disgrace to the person raising it, but may prompt an incautious listener to give absurd answers, thus presenting, as the ancients said, the laughable spectacle of one person milking a he-goat, and another holding the sieve underneath."
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"Sadness has a depth; it can make you more sensitive and aware."
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"Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace."
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"I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and thin what we ought to do about it."
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"We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason."
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"Follow your dreams, not the crowd."
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"(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as if it were one of reason's most important occupations? Still more, how little cause have we to place trust in our reason if in one of the most important parts of our desire for knowledge it does not merely forsake us but even entices us with delusions and in the end betrays us! Or if the path has merely eluded us so far, what indications may we use that might lead us to hope that in renewed attempts we will be luckier than those who have gone before us?"
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"Those who realize their folly are not true fools."
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"There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata, there is a thunder note in an angry sky."
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"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."
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"Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible."
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"The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty."
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"You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention."
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"Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm."
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"The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere."
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"I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery."
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"For their holidays: the rich's kids travel the world, the poor's kids roam around their grandparents' yard."
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"Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me."
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"Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages."
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"Life is only a flicker of melted ice."
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"Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness."
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"Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself."
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"But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience."
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"Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!"
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"Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive."
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"Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions."
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