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Quotes by Philosopher
"There are those who speak and those who dream."
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"The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one."
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"I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough."
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"People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs."
38
"It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be."
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"Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples."
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"For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation."
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"If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak."
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"A short axe can still cut down tall trees."
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"You can put all your eggs in one basket if God has told you to."
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"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."
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"Common sense is calculation applied to life."
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"The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him."
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"For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor."
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"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."
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"Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media."
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"You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand."
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"One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine."
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"Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance."
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"A right word counts the silence, a bad word is counted by the page."
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"Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society."
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"What is really the Mars One project? It is to carry Frank Sinatra to the Mars, it is to carry Hamlet to the Mars, Gandhi to the Mars, Buddha to the Mars. It is a project of carrying our memories, our knowledge, our history, our everything to the Mars! It is not only a project of saving our future but also a project of saving our whole past!"
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"The most beautiful birds do not know how beautiful they are until they see their reflection in water."
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"In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy."
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"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
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"The darkest clouds precipitate the most rain."
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"If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr."
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"Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'."
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"The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true."
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"You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful."
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"One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."
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"Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety."
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"Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding."
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"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."
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"God created sages because He wanted to leave the light on in the universe."
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"A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century."
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"And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer."
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"Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples."
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"I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets."
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"Fire is the test of gold adversity of strong men."
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"Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life."
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"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip."
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