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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Any Disease Important Significance
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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Abstract Famous Independent Intensity
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

About Album Extended Family
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Balance However Lie May
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Accelerate Beauty Become Change
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Becoming Exhaustion His History
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Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Alive Although Becoming Healthy
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Governs Guilt Inexorable Innocence
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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Form Lying Most Simple
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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

AIDS Consequences Having People
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Art Intellectual Interpretation Revenge
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

Dream Life Interpret Looking
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Aim Analogy Art Commentary
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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Altogether Bad Interesting Less
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Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Ambition Does Feeds Others
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Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Elementary Lying Means Self
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Constructs Painter Photographer
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Books Funny Little Pieces
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Deeply Feared Most Suffering
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Attainment Existence Flux Future
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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Anything Catastrophe Changing Heading
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The decisive means for politics is violence.

Decisive Means Politics Violence
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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Also Courage Faith Full
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Liberty Peace Tranquillity
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Follow Glory Shadow Virtue
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The sinews of war are infinite money.

Infinite Money Sinews War
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Adverse Blows Brave Fortune
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Children Gifts His Human
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Consists Decency Doing Giving
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Aspiring Even Highest Honorable
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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

Creation Criticize Fault Finding
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Baldness Foolish Grief Hair
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Harder Him Inferiority Man
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True nobility is exempt from fear.

Exempt Fear Nobility True
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Again Beings Come Creator
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Dead Life Living Memory
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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Bring Change Day Does
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Every Friends Goats He
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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
Mine Thine
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

Accomplishment Achieved Act Again
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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

Above Characterized Disenchantment Fate
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Decisive Feeling Passion Politician
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Base Calling Crumble Face
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No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

Age Computation Even Good
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Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

Boards Boring Hard Politics
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The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Facts His Inconvenient Mean
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.

Base Calling Crumble He
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It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Evil Follow Good Good And Evil
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