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Quotes by Philosopher
"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
82
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
82
"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress."
82
"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."
81
"Today's tears water tomorrow's gardens."
81
"I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia."
81
"But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only."
81
"Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made."
81
"Was there ever something not known before it was recognized?"
81
"There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."
81
"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster."
81
"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie."
81
"The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it."
81
"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."
80
"In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame."
80
"Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society.But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money."
80
"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."
80
"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government."
79
"The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another."
79
"Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals."
79
"Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth."
79
"If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others."
79
"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action."
79
"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."
79
"To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious."
79
"The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that."
78
"Be the master of your own destiny, not a victim of circumstances."
78
"To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there."
78
"What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal."
78
"Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."
78
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."
78
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
78
"The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason."
78
"No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest."
78
"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."
78
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
77
"Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on."
77
"Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation."
77
"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."
Fear,
77
"Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy."
77
"One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way."
77
"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories."
77
"The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers."
77
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