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Quotes by Philosopher
"He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed."
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"Nothing is ours except time."
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"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
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"If you don't fit into a box you can always try to fit into a circle."
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"The evangelist is the world's hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself."
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"But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation."
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"Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied."
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"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
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"A bee, though small, can still sting you; an elephant, though calm, can still trample you; a lion, though full, can still devour you."
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"Never expect wolves to behave like sheep."
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"I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property."
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"It must be freely admitted that there is a sort of circle here from which it seems impossible to escape. In the order of efficient causes we assume ourselves free, in order that in the order of ends we may conceive ourselves as subject to these laws because we have attributed to ourselves freedom of will; for freedom and self-legislation of will are both autonomy..."
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"Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made."
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"Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mindis free of society. One must become poor inwardly for then there isno seeking, no asking, no desire, no - nothing! It is only this inwardpoverty that can see the truth of a life in which there is no conflict at all."
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"It's the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don't say a word, they don't hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly."
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"The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power."
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"Rise above your fears and you rise above your world."
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"While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it."
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"Virtue can flower only when there is freedom."
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"To create is to live twice."
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"Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves."
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"Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones."
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"He who is shallow cannot think deeply."
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"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk."
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"A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes."
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"Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality."
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"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."
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"Hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty: and many of them have not yet been discovered."
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"Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future."
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"The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound."
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"If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed."
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"If you reveal your secrets to the wind,you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees."
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"The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is."
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"The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation."
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"There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered."
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"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men."
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"A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance."
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"The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education."
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"No one can be alone when he befriends with the forgotten stranger inside him."
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"A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil."
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"God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!"
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"Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure."
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"What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you."
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"The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness."
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"The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art."
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"As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era."
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"Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon."
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