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Quotes by Philosopher
"We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life."
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"If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak."
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"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."
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"Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."
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"Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here or nowhere,' couldst thou only see!"
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"The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."
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"O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible, and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands."
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"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."
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"My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it."
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"Unhappy is the man though he rule the world who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed."
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"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."
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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying."
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"Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together."
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"If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that."
Life,
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"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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"Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request."
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"One age misunderstands another, and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way."
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"To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name."
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"It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played."
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"A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others."
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"God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays."
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"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."
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"So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it."
Man,
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"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
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"If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself."
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"How well you do something determines how well you will be rewarded by it."
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"Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow."
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"Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think."
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"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
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"Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion."
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"The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity."
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"An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived."
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"Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history."
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"Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions."
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"The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it."
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"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
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"The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God."
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"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come."
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"The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles."
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"Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'."
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"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence."
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"The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end to predominate, is not that which can exist between a capitalist as chief, and work-people without a voice in the management, but the association of the labourers themselves on terms of equality, collectively owning the capital with which they carry on their operations, and working under managers elected and removable by themselves."
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"In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny."
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"Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs."
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"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
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"The enlightened worry less than others, quarrel less than others, fight less than others, transgress less than others; care more than others, give more than others, and love more than others."
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"The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished."
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"Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them."
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