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Quotes by Philosopher
"Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness."
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"The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows."
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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
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"Even if, by some especially unfortunate fate or by the niggardly provision of stepmotherly nature, [the good will] should be wholly lacking in the power to accomplish its purpose; if with the greatest effort it should yet achieve nothing, and only the good will should remain (not, to be sure, as a mere wish but as the summoning of all the means in our power), yet would it, like a jewel, still shine by its own light as something which has its full value in itself."
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"Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent."
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"Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues."
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"Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."
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"There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!"
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"The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist."
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"Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news."
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"If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared."
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"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic."
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"The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery."
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"And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority."
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"As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious."
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"No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms."
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"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."
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"While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost."
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"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's."
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"Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive."
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"I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little."
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"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you."
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"Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!"
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"You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all."
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"With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries."
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."
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"If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown."
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"Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness."
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"There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative."
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"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."
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"There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol."
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"Let them spend their time condemning every action of persons they do not like; by this let them revoke their own condemnation licenses: no one will take them seriously when it comes time to condemn something that really needs to be condemned, and thus hear, hear, despite the excess noise, the reasonable voices may prevail."
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"Books had instant replay long before televised sports."
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"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself."
Self,
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"Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be."
Race,
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"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."
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"The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?"
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"The profundity of Christianity is that Christ is both our redeemer and our judge, not that one is our redeemer and another is our judge, for then we certainly come under judgement, but that the redeemer and the judge are the same."
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"The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner."
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"The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self."
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"He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice."
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"Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed."
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"Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen."
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