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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!"
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"Do not consider despair as a thick and high wall standing on your way, it is just a darkness and you can still walk in the darkness till you reach the light!"
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"To be wise for one day is better than to be intelligent for a hundred."
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"The shrewd, like chameleons, embrace change by using it to their advantage."
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"All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final."
Self,
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"Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke."
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"The laws of gravity work everywhere except in the heart and the soul."
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"Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression."
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"When someone comes around at that dreary moment, when all hope was lost, and thorns emerged. And that fellow, walks on that thorn just to cross to your side, to bear the pains for your sake, to bleed, to self-destroy himself, just to protect you. He places you above his priorities, and doesn't give a damn whatsoever taunt he receives, his foremost desire is to make sure you are save, feel loved and cared for, and that's the true definition of love."
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"Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility."
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"A wise servant is better than a foolish ruler."
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"People entered the park and became polite and cozy and fakey to each other because the atmosphere of the park made them that way. In the entire time he had lived within a hundred miles of it he had visited it only once or twice."
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"It is easier to wipe a thousand tears from your eyes than to wipe a single tear from your soul."
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"...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he."
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"The objections to religion are of two sorts -- intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true, the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow."
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"A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly."
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"For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived."
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"The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body."
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"There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily."
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"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."
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"If you look to money for happiness, you will be disappointed; to power, you will be disillusioned; to honor, you will be dissatisfied; to others, you will be disenchanted; but if you look to God, you will be fulfilled."
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"Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!"
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"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves."
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"My mother-in-law belongs in Hell, but the devil is afraid she'll end up taking over."
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"Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth."
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"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."
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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
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"There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope."
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"True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle, it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done."
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"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
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"Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant."
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"I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics."
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"I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career."
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"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
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"Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops."
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"What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others."
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"Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours', as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that."
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"History is the essence of innumerable biographies."
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"I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine."
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"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself."
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"Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language."
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"Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating."
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"Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies."
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"The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic."
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"Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman."
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"Don't be attached to anything. Be in the world, but don't be of the world."
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"The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly."
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"You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat."
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"You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!"
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