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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Say Beautiful World Shape
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

You Universe Can Your
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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life, which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Man Ethical Obey Shrink
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Silence Come Music After
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In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those who rekindle the inner spirit.

Fire Out Human Spirit
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You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
Shall Truth Make You
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but at the same time it becomes richer and happier.
Life When Live Time
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Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

World Hell Another Maybe
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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Great Life Man Secret
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Mind Original More Toward
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Life Devote Help Need
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I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Know Want Passion Feel
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red spotlight, the truly wise person is colorblind.

Wise Person Light While
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

But Found Sure Only
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The thinking person must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Must Custom Matter Choice
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Has Who Person More
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The true worth of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.

True Worth Found Come
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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Known Thing Between Door
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Animal Man Who Behave
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Carry Spirit Child Secret
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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Sun Melt Evaporate Constant
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Experience What Man Happen
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Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

Power Truth Have Confidence
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That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Equal Sane Time That
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In the hopes of reaching the moon, we fail to see the flowers that blossom at our feet.

Feet Hope Moon See
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Great But Truth About
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Life While What The
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The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live.

Live Give Thing. Know
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Key Love Will Success
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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Learn How Free Past
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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Keep Truth The Wheel
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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Somebody Pain People Can
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Book Bad Much Soul
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When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

Start People Them With
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

Long Men Will Them
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Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

Sink Same Sane Boat
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Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Change Only Possible Through
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.
Hug Drug Love Kiss
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Can Have First Has
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Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

Universal Class New Call
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I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Judge World Know That
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Planet Shall Long Live
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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Back Culture You Still
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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Stop Question Who Let
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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Happiness Purpose Pain
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Teach Suffer Enjoy Live
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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Root Evil Think Money
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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Control Understand Crop Domestic
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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Image Power Choice Build
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Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Reward Price Virtue Another
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