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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Achievement Any Demanding Everyone
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The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

Apparatus Bureaucratic Compares Developed
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The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

Another Complementary Conviction Ethic
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The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

Above Career Elevate Even
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Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

Either Lives Off Politics
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Chance Context Even Impose
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Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Administration Bureaucratic Continuity Costs
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It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

Astonishing Become Despite Easily
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Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

Again Attained Certainly Experience
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Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.

Application Arise Cause Determined
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The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Appeared Communist Conception Crude
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All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'

Analysis Assumption Being Conduct
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Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.

Exact Important Laws Measure
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Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

Beings Culture Finite Human
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All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Always Cultural Knowledge May
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Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

Artistic Bears Concrete Description
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All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.

Age Analysis Consider Cultural
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Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

Analysis Causal Explanation Judgment
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Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

Above Act Avoidance Breaking
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The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

Agents Concern Criminal Criminal Justice
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Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Among Distribution Either Groups
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Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Confines Exists Hall Integrity
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A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

Cannot Club Cult Developed
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One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.

Absolute Anyone Cannot Ends
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Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

Available Causes Discard Favour
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Beginning Confession Evil First
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Although Among Impure Light
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Any Appearance Cannot Does
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Attained Contradictory Experience Find
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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Beauty Love Soul
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Love, and do what you like.

Like Love You
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Chastity Give
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Beauty Dispense Even Gift
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Each God Loves Only
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Absence Justice Organized Robbery
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Impossible Indeed Lives Make
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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Find Given God How
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Explain Him Wish Know
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Companion Patience Wisdom
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Concepts Experiences Go Here
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

Angel Bounds Cannot Guardian
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

About Begin Being Construct
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Help Lord Me Pure
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

Help Lord Me Pure
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Find His Imperfections Man
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Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Chastity Give Lord
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Earth God Had Never
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Because Came Could Deliberately
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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Anxiety Infinite Leisure Moments
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Agent Another Break Government
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