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Quotes by Philosopher
"Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions."
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"Those who build are greater than those who tear down."
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"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort."
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"Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children."
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"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."
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"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."
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"Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated."
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"It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you."
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"But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do."
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"My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."
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"Those who fear life are already three parts dead."
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"There are anonymous poems and poets without poems."
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"I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us."
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"Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves."
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"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry."
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"The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind."
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"To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible."
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"If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?"
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"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
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"The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that."
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"To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady."
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"Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain."
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"They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice."
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"What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring."
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"Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older."
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"Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation."
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"Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change."
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"Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation."
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"Life is a sage's university, hardship is his professor."
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"The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses."
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"For a finite being, an infinite path has no meaning!"
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"Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on."
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"Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!"
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"Never hide your fear because it will become your own God, hidden inside you."
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"The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world."
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"The most tragic thing for a person is to have a very limited capacity in the matters of dream!"
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"Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!"
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"A dreamlike reality always looks like a real dream!"
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"The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher."
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"Uncommon faith gives you uncommon power."
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"I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty."
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"Wisdom is a reliable companion."
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"You are no greater than the knowledge you acquire, the desires you harbor, and the experiences you cherish."
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"Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted."
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"Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow."
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