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Quotes by Philosopher
"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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"To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer."
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"If you cannot solve your problem, change your position and look at your problem from a different angle with a different mind! Every problem has a hole where you can enter inside and destroy it!"
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"Turn your frowns into smiles, your tears into laughter, your weaknesses into strengths, your setbacks into opportunities, and your failures into victories."
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"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss."
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"Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment."
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"No matter how many leaves would the tree of your soul have in front of the intense heat in the words of Time in this world, they can never shade the eternity lost inside you."
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"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause."
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"Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius to elevate the world."
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"A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought."
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"Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race."
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"A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."
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"Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat."
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"It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important."
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"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."
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"What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle."
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"Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff."
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"There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard."
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
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"Ambition' is 'greed' rebranded."
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"To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and of every spurious ornament of reward or self-love. How much she then eclipses everything else that appears charming to the affections, every one may readily perceive with the least exertion of his reason, if it be not wholly spoiled for abstraction."
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"La vida solo puede ser entendida mirando hacia atrás, aunque deba ser vivida mirando hacia adelante."
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"For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him."
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"God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life."
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"Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas."
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"Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him."
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"What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past."
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"It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals."
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"Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him."
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"The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself."
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"He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility."
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"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life."
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"The mind is its thoughts, the heart is its desires, and the soul is its experiences."
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"There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool."
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"Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature."
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"One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend."
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"To understand a child we have to watch him at play, study him in his different moods; we cannot project upon him our own prejudices, hopes and fears, or mould him to fit the pattern of our desires. If we are constantly judging the child according to our personal likes and dislikes, we are bound to create barriers and hindrances in our relationship with him and in his relationships with the world. Unfortunately, most of us desire to shape the child in a way that is gratifying to our own vanities and idiosyncrasies; we find varying degrees of comfort and satisfaction in exclusive ownership and domination."
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"True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat."
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"The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life."
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"Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws."
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"There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise."
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"O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed."
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"The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism."
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"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."
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"It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine."
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"It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not."
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