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Quotes by Philosopher
"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good."
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"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."
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"The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles."
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"Working rightly, the brain is the highest form of "instinctual wisdom." Thus it should work like the homing instinct of pigeons and the formation of the foetus in the womb - without verbalizing the process of knowing "how" it does it. The self-conscious brain, like the self-conscious heart, is a disorder, and manifests itself in the acute feeling of separation between "I" and my experience."
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"In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it."
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"What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it."
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"You can only be afraid of what you think you know."
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"The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you."
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"We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly."
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"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers."
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"In a materialistic society, there's no such a thing as a 'romantic' broke man."
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"If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I."
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"Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason."
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"What you give today you get tomorrow."
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"In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare."
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"All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development."
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"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal."
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"Sanity is madness put to good use."
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"No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead."
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"The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things."
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"In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired."
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"There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence."
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"No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him."
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"The truth brings no man a fortune."
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"Emptiness is this world's greatest discovery. Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?"
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"Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe."
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"To possess taste, one must have some soul."
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"It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn."
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"High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell - in public."
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"If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms."
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"If you want your inner light to shine brighter, illuminate someone else's."
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"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."
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"Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another."
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"It is as if a man should hesitate indefinitely to ask a certain woman to marry him because he was not perfectly sure that she would prove an angel after he brought her home. Would he not cut himself off from that particular angel-possibility as decisively as if he went and married some one else? Scepticism, then, is not avoidance of option; it is option of a certain particular kind of risk. Better risk loss of truth than chance of error,-that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field."
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"When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful."
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"I'm often told that money and spirituality are different things from people that don't have time to read spiritual books because they have to work for money."
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"Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for your face."
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"An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation."
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"I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary."
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"The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk."
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"Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death?"
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"Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs, vibrating like a guiter string as perspiration covered her entire body, she felt like disappearing into the thin air, maybe to another mind creating world."
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"Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything."
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"As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being."
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"Dream by making and make by dreaming."
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"Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live."
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