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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force."
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"Things you don't need in your life targets you the most."
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"Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!"
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"The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts."
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"The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good."
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"Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse."
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"I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing."
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"For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught."
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"We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives."
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"So if you have to live amongst men, you must allow everyone the right to exist in accordance with the character he has, whatever it turns out to be: and all you should strive to do is to make use of this character in such a way as its kind and nature permit, rather than to hope for any alteration in it, or to condemn it off-hand for what it is. This is the true sense of the maxim--Live and let live. That, however, is a task which is difficult in proportion as it is right; and he is a happy man who can once for all avoid having to do with a great many of his fellow creatures."
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"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."
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"I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals."
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"Live each day as if it were your last, love each day as if you will live forever."
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"We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living."
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"Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow."
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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
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"You can't control the waves, but you can learn to surf."
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"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing."
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"Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die."
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"To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic."
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"A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present."
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"A cowardly critique starts with a compliment."
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"Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World."
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"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master."
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"You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness."
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"People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out."
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"A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world, it just blooms."
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"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."
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"Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us."
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"We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves."
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"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
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"A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness."
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"To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal."
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"Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise."
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"We are a dream of a thought which lives trough the Word."
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"He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it."
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"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind."
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"Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to please themselves, and to mix a little liberally in their feasts the influence of Dionysos, that good deity who restores to younger men their gaiety and to old men their youth...fit to inspire old men with mettle to divert themselves in dancing and music; things of great use, and that they dare not attempt when sober."
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"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."
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"Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is...emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty. That, today, is where it is at, and will continue to be at for a long time to come."
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"One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry."
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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
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"In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment."
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