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Quotes by Philosopher
"Thus it is said:The path into the light seems dark,the path forward seems to go back,the direct path seems long,true power seems weak,true purity seems tarnished,true steadfastness seems changeable,true clarity seems obscure,the greatest are seems unsophisticated,the greatest love seems indifferent,the greatest wisdom seems childish.The Tao is nowhere to be found.Yet it nourishes and completes all things."
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"The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea."
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"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."
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"A river does not go looking for water, water comes looking for it instead."
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"Stop explaining yourself, the right people understand you."
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"Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity."
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"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."
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"Your belief is mostly your prison! To discover the world outside your prison, you must first realize the walls surrounding you! Otherwise you shall continue being stuck in the prison of childish tales and fallacious illusions!"
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"Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death."
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"The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe."
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"Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time."
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"The most hidden secret to the Law of Attraction is frequency and to Medicine is oxygen."
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"Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds."
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"At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places."
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"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."
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"We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation."
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"The limits of your language are the limits of your world."
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"Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else."
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"The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together."
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"So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us."
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"Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language."
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"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art."
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"If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society."
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"Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction."
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"A tree is only as good as the seed it is stems from."
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"But above all, in order to be, never try to seem."
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"I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart."
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"Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians."
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"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."
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"If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now."
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"Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it."
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"True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict."
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"Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else."
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"He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all."
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"Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it."
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"If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically."
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"There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies."
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"I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way."
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"With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are."
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"Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it."
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"We live behind the closed doors of our own destiny."
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"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning."
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"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust."
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"The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past."
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"Eagles fly alone, not because they are proud, but because they are not afraid of soaring above the clouds."
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"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think."
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"We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being."
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"The worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation."
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