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Quotes by Philosopher
"Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour."
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"Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company."
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"There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind."
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"Let go of your past, or it will keep you from your future."
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"Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth!"
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"Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time."
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"Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again."
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"When love beckons to you, follow him,Though his ways are hard and steep.And when his wings enfold you yield to him,Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.And when he speaks to you believe in him,Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden."
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"If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!"
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"To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive."
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"It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose."
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"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."
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"Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit."
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"A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation."
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"I am usually able to tolerate all kinds of victims of indoctrination except those who have been infected with xenophobia, racism, or homophobia."
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"From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God."
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"There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic."
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"It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!"
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"We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power."
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"You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard."
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"Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."
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"Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
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"Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country."
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"Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known."
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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?"
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"It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory."
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"After or before any happiness, someone must cry."
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"The greater the pressure the brighter the diamond."
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"People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality."
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"There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument."
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"I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken."
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"For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write."
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"The heart is seldom wiser than the mind, but when it is, listen to it."
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"We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less."
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"Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?"
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"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."
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"Death is a continuation of my life without me..."
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"You have to choose whether to go to a restless sleep or to stay awake and fight for a blissful night rest."
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"No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism."
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"Whatever we do we are always on the way to somewhere!"
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"Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience."
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"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."
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"Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship."
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