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Quotes by Philosopher
"Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature."
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"If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love."
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"To the wizard death is merely a belief."
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"Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment."
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"You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great."
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"The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry."
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"Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it."
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"The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities."
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"Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers."
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"Everybody knows basically what is right and what is wrong. Everybody knows better than to hate others. In fact, most people teach against it, and yet we still see it on the daily. But why do you think that is? It is because the problem was never really humans not loving humans enough; the problem was humans not loving righteousness enough. We must empty our own love for the world so that it can be replaced by the love of Christ; only then will we begin to love people as Christ loves people, as He always intended."
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"Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self."
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"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
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"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."
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"The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge."
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"When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!"
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"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."
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"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."
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"Be alone, that is the only way to find yourself."
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"Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."
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"The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one."
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"I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved."
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"It is nevertheless better than the theological concept, of deriving morality from a divine, all-perfect will, not merely because we do not intuit this perfection, but can derive it solely from our concepts, of which morality is the foremost one, but because if we do not do this (which, if we did, would be a crude circle in explanation), the concept of his will that is left over to us, the attributes of the desire for glory and domination, bound up with frightful representations of power and vengeance, would have to make a foundation for a system of morals that is directly opposed to morality."
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"God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world."
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"You don't have to reach for greatness if it is already in you."
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"God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible."
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"Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.Who knows but that which seems omitted today, waits for tomorrow?Even your body knows its heritage and its rightful need and will not be deceived.And your body is the harp of your soul,And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds."
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"I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy."
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."
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"To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject."
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"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."
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"Yes, looking through the eyes of literature we may talk about the beauty of sadness! But in the eyes of truth, sadness is just saddening; there is no beauty there, only a touching desperation!"
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"Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions."
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"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand."
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"To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time."
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"A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns."
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"We fail so easily to see the difference between fear of the unknown and respect for the unknown, thinking that those who do not hasten in with bright lights and knives are deterred by a holy and superstitious fear. Respect for the unknown is the attitude of those who, instead of raping nature, woo her until she gives herself. But what she gives, even then, is not the cold clarity of the surface but the warm inwardness of the body - a mysteriousness which is not merely a negation, a blank absence of knowledge, but that positive substance which we call wonderfull."
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"It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life, the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact."
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"It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it appears that the Western mistrust of human nature-whether theological or technological-is a kind of schizophrenia. It would be impossible, in their view, to believe oneself innately evil without discrediting the very belief, since all the notions of a perverted mind would be perverted notions."
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"When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy."
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"The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities."
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"There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work."
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"She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit."
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"I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist."
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"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."
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"An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth."
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"Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources."
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"Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS."
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