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Quotes by Philosopher
"The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man."
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"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."
37
"Ideas any one can mould as he wishes."
37
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
37
"It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling."
37
"We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time."
37
"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."
37
"Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange."
37
"In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves."
37
"The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss."
37
"Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures."
37
"There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves."
37
"Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion..."
37
"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."
37
"For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of people, and this either deeply touches them or deeply angers them. Like the apostles in all their loving controversies are those who are masters of words while combining this gift with truth."
37
"If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with - while they wait for their death."
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"I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see."
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"Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss."
37
"When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door."
37
"For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture."
37
"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."
37
"Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus."
37
"No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement."
37
"Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God."
37
"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."
37
"In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues."
37
"It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish."
37
"Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul."
37
"A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation."
37
"Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it."
37
"By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."
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"The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question."
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"Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse."
37
"The highest prayers lift you out of the lowest places."
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"It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words."
37
"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing."
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"People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently."
37
"If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother."
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"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."
37
"It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure."
37
"If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction."
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"One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God."
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"The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive."
37
"If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears."
37
"The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them."
37
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."
37
"The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body."
37
"It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts."
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