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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Activity Insight Nothing Terrible
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Angels Music Said Speech
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Merit Novelty Originality Sincerity
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Honor Kind Know Man
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Acts Conscious Divine Faults
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Acorn Breeze Echoes Fall
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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
Demand Economist Got Parrot
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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Books Lies Past PastTime
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Am Bigger Deal Great
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Action Alone Doubt Ended
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Beginning Heart Knowledge Loving
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Biography Great Great Man Great Men
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

After Become Books Collection
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The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Each Each Man Hath He
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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

Against Awe Common Conditions
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Able He Last Long
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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Authority Law Makes Wisdom
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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

Chains Conquered Enemy He
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No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Becomes Error Him His
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Cardial Force Fraud Two
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

Believing Force Gravitation Same
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The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Day Death Die Embodied
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Beasts Brute Commonly Domain
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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Assault Away Cannot Down
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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Measure Nature Profit Right
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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Acknowledge Believe Eloquent Hardly
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Another Consequences Dependence Fact
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Absurdity Creature Living Man
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

Act Battle Contend Fighting
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Ancient Authors Competition Dead
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Apply Equal Equally Experience
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Curiosity Lust Mind Of
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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

About Am Dark Great
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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Alone Endures Flesh Future
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Words are the money of fools.

Fools Are Money Words
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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Everyone Fear Himself Invisible
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Caused Conception Else Nothing
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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

Glory Laughter Maketh Passion
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The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Against Condition Everyone Man
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

After Death Desire General
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

All Things Blame Clean Grave
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They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

Approve Call Dislike Heresy
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Because Desire Fear Here
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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

Man Men Nor Pleasure
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Able Commend Him Man
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Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Arising Comparison Conception Else
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

All The World Death Every Every Man
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

Desperate Gives Hope Leader
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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Build Creativity Doorway Effort
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Impossible Love Nothing Patience
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