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Quotes by Philosopher
"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do."
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"There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited."
77
"Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately."
77
"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
76
"Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all."
76
"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."
76
"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."
76
"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."
76
"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
76
"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
76
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
76
"By being rigid, you become temporary; by being flexible, you become permanent!"
76
"One in three all friends are:Brothers in distress,equals facing rivals,free men - facing death!"
76
"Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own."
76
"The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know."
75
"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."
75
"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."
75
"I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!"
75
"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."
75
"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom."
75
"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."
75
"Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided."
75
"If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it."
75
"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted."
74
"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are."
74
"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them."
74
"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
74
"I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices."
74
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
74
"The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God."
74
"Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time."
74
"Only in the eyes of love you can find infinity."
74
"Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none."
74
"Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike."
73
"In books lies the soul of the whole past time."
73
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
Man,
73
"You have two eyes, but the discerning have three. You have two ears, but the wise have four. You have two hands, but the enlightened have five."
73
"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."
73
"Resign your destiny to higher powers."
73
"Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity with fire and sword, my ascetic results would have to fear the reproach of being trivial."
73
"Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings."
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