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Quotes by Philosopher
"The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
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"Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century."
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"Before i could utter a word, my listeners had left me long ago."
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"Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd, otherwise you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds!"
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"Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots."
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"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune."
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"It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius."
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"Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!"
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"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."
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"Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower."
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"I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as the currents of the winds change - leaves too much room for one's own cultural bias. Instead, introverts tend to turn inward, the laboratory of being and all its forms. This is the most accurate study of the individual human being, which is in turn, rather than those affected by cultural limitations, the most universal reflection of human understanding and human behavior."
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"I'm hustling' is a low self-esteem having man's way of saying 'I'm unemployed,' when answering a seemingly materialistic woman's question as to what he does for a living."
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"No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology."
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"Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further."
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"Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all."
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"A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others."
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"Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer."
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"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."
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"It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it."
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"Think objectively. Think operationally. Think optimistically. Think outstandingly."
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"Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places."
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"If the final chapter of your life story is written by love, you are guaranteed a happy ending."
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"Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears."
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"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"
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"We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do."
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"That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others."
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"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."
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"Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other."
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"You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time."
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"We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings."
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"If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world."
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"Just because you believe in something, you cannot expect others to respect for your belief! They may even make fun of it! All you have to do is to be peaceful at any time, with everyone! Something holy for you may be just a rubbish for others! All you have to do is to be peaceful at any time, with everyone!"
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"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life."
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"Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!"
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"Unless you accept anyone to be your boss, no man can be your boss!"
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"People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout."
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"This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society."
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"It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life-if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them."
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"To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something, to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little."
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"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."
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"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
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"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner."
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"It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs."
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"Start your journey where the road ends! Glory lies beyond the ends!"
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"If we had a penny for each time God smiled at us, we would all be billionaires."
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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
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"There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!"
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