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Quotes by Philosopher
"Grief is only the memory of widowed affections."
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"What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing."
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"When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it."
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"It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate."
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"A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless."
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"You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well."
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"Sanity is a madness put to good uses."
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"To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education."
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"Light is a masterpiece, but is of little value if you are blind."
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"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."
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"The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind."
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"Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them."
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"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom."
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"The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully."
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"Ask the person who found you about what kind of people they were looking for before meeting you, as they may not know that they have found one of them already."
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"Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance."
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"In a myriad of ways you tell one truth."
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"Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns."
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"A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy."
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"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."
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"The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk."
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"If you combine the suffering's great color palette you will find happiness as well."
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"A man who is afraid of being alone has never truly met himself."
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"Possible impossibility emerges From an impossible possibility, Or possibly, impossible possibility Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility."
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"It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases."
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"If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation."
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"A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem."
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"Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology."
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"When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached."
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"A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one."
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"To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful."
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"We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune."
God,
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"Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone."
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"A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever."
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"When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours."
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"The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression."
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"Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared."
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"If you can dance with your total being, you have achieved prayer."
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"Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities."
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"When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics."
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"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests."
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"Balk the enemy's power force him to reveal himself."
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"Hear more than people say. Give more than people ask. Do more than people expect. Achieve more than people imagine."
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"The road to Hell is always shiny and alluring."
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