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4485 Philosopher Quotes

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Because Believe Hard Obey
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Boredom Despairing Evil Oneself
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Absurd Demand Freedom Freedom Of Speech
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Animal Birds Breeds Commonly
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Call Else Embryo Exposed
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Once you label me you negate me.

Label Me Once You
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Creates Does God He
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Begins Dies His Martyr
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Begin Bore Bores Contradict
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
His Made Man Only
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

Gives Love Love Is Takes
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Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Alter Beloved Does Itself
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Heart One Thing Purity Thing
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Always Dominant Expresses Life
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Discover Forces Hidden Life
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Being Changes Face Facts
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Being Evil Far Good
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

About Complaint Even Me
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

Am Because Believe Cannot
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Being Come Every Faith
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

About Beautiful Beautiful Things Heard
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

Becomes Divine Forget Greater
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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Accompanied Death Die Enjoyment
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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Being Cannot Catch Caught
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Anguish Beautiful Beautiful Music Cries
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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Always Being Discovers Finally
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The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Able Being Criticism Endure
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Friend Just Knows Loves
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Character His Know Man Many
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Arouse Being Ecstasy Envy
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He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Achieved He Laughed Loved
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Art Thing Way A
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Alive Get Life Never
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There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Except Failure Longer Trying
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Able Cash Experience Failure
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Live truth instead of professing it.

Instead Live Professing Truth
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Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

College Employer Finds Get
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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Care Day Itself Morning
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A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Acquainted Been Has-Been Optimist
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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Failure Heart Kind Optimism
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Our Punished Sins Them
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The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Away Beautiful Block Elimination
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Along Child Enable Get
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Extraordinary Fifty Machine Man
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An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Being Dangerous Idea Worthy
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Consist Dam Day Every
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Anyway Believe Enemies Explain
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Hands Having Head Man
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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Answer Argument Call Him
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Agree Another Becomes Cause
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