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Quotes by Philosopher
"It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts."
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"The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth."
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"Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this."
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"The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage."
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"We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also."
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"Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties."
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"Create a life that feels good on the inside, not just one that looks good on the outside."
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"He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her."
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"Once you choose to be yourself, competition ceases to exist."
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"Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom."
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"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."
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"Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations."
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"What you seek for others you find for yourself."
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"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
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"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."
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"When you look at extraordinary people look for scars."
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"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."
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"Under the guise of helping the sick, oppressed and hopeless, psychiatry is paving the way for authoritarian governments to suppress a whole society furthermore, with drugs and obscene practices that promote, not only hypnotic suggestions, but also highly suggestible individuals which, otherwise, would oppose a whole repressive system that threatens both their existence and the existence of future generations on Earth. And so, one can very well say that, psychiatry, aided by pharmaceutical corporations and power-driven governments, or merely governments fearful of their own people and the extinction of immoral politics, will contribute vastly to the extermination and full extinction of the human race."
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"When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one."
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"Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around."
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"Don't be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars."
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"The lonely road to greatness is better than the crowded road to mediocrity."
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"God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form."
God,
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"Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents."
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"The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted."
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"Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later."
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"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love."
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"Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers."
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"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."
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"One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed."
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"To breath through the truth is not the same with knowing it."
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"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself."
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"Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!"
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"Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."
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"Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in."
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"The fans are always more radical than that which they are fans."
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"Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men."
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"One who cannot dance must not blame the song."
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"The ending can only start with the beginning and end with self estrangement, as to become once again his own/old self. This is why every man is a continuous ending."
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"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."
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"We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed."
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"Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight."
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"Do not be to yourself more that God may be to you."
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"We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity."
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"No moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn't born yet!"
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"Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough."
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"What our age lacks is not reflection but passion."
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