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4485 Philosopher Quotes

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Energy Mind Essence Life
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Master Metaphor Genius Perception
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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Happy Life Virtue Amusement
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Ideal Bear Dignity Grace
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Perfect Middle Control Class
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Exclusive Sign Knowledge Power
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
Proof Know Able Teach
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Root Bitter Fruit Sweet
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Grip Danger Present Aware
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Ultimate Life Power Survival
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Worse Make Thing Equal
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Reason Mother Devote Children
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Children Honor Produce Educate
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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Conscious Perceive Own Existence
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To love someone is to identify with them.
Love Identify Someone Them
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Express Common Wise People
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Live Deed Breath Figure
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We make war that we may live in peace.
Make War May Peace
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Neither Coward Rash Courage
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Praise Person Moment Length
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Delight Solitude Wild Beast
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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases

Eminent Philosophy Extent Affect
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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Love Wicked Obey Fear
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Wish Friend Work Fruit
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You will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

World Courage Quality Honor
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Freedom But Better Chance
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Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Walk Front Friend Follow
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Are Heart Shall Never
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Only Way Free Act
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.

You Never Happy Search
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Man Wild Beast World
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance.

Evil World Always Come
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You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

You Create Must Experience
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Real Toward Future Present
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

More Than Fear Respect
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There is no love of life without despair of life.
There Love Life Despair
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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Free Press Good Most
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

People Some Normal Nobody
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Light Blind Truth Object
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Lack Courage Find Those
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But what is happiness, except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

What Except Harmony Lead
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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of

Truth Liberty Goal Advance
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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Happy Must Too Other
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

World Has Turn Away
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The place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Place Book These Knowledge
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A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

WOrk Slow Through Great
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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Must Live Create Tear
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and does.

Work Life Goes Rotten
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Habit Death Toward Body
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