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Quotes by Philosopher
"The worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation."
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"Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love."
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"If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power."
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"If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue."
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"What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation."
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"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
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"Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change."
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"How does one say something new and not retell?"
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"In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all."
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"The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men."
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"Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind."
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"The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold, just now the world became perfect!'-thus thinks every woman when she obeys out of entire love. And women must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it."
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"The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness."
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"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."
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"Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is within you."
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"He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history."
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"Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking."
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"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."
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"Love as much as you can, for as long as you can, and as best as you can."
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"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."
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"The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture."
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"No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another."
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"Your breaking point is often your blessing point."
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"Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without."
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"The more you keep your door closed, the more you will rot! Open your door! Let different ideas, different beliefs, different cultures and different attitudes flow into your mind. Anything different will help you to enlarge your little world! By opening your door, you invite the whole universe to your tiny house! Enlarge your house and enrich yourself! As long as your door remains closed, you shall continue rotting in your poor world!"
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"Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come."
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"The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth."
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"The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery."
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"If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good."
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"They that have lived a single day have lived an age."
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"The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only."
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"Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal."
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"It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both."
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"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
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"Experience life in all possible ways - good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter."
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"A poet is not an apostle, he drives out devils only by the power of the devil."
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"What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions - they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force."
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"To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book."
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"The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature."
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"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."
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"The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it."
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"Everything in nature acts in conformity with law."
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"The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it."
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"Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are at their best."
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"But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;To return home at eventide with gratitude;And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips."
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"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."
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"Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty!"
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