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4485 Philosopher Quotes

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Being Efficient Hard Obnoxious
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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Always Answers Desires Disappoint
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I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Able Am Appreciate I Am
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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Day Done Every Every Day
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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Being Dangerous Idea Worthy
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Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Come Dream Events Expected
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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Hate Inertia Love Men
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Ability Far Finer More
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Genius Handicapped Limitations May
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Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Believed Every Freedom Himself
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Believed,Every,Freedom,Himself,Lived,Tyrant,Who

Alive God Sign Suffer
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Anything Better Negative Nothing
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Give Keep Others Secrets
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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Alone Cheer Each Help
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We work to become, not to acquire.

Acquire Become Work We
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Enemies Example Governments Individuals
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Life is just one damned thing after another.

After Another Just Just One
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Cowardly Fat Fight Man
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Accomplishes Day Ever Far
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Best Good Good Work Preparation
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A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Bad Dares Good He
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Business Editor Employed Newspaper
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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
Church Manufacture Saves Science
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Days Doing Done Fast
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Truly New Criticism Art
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Counsel Fabric Life Real
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Idea Share Good Beauty
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Method Writing Buy Ways
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Ground Past Theatre Cities
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Shock Affect Gifts Point
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Reality Scope Process Adjustment
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Approach Baby Book Cannibal
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

Public Opinion Judging Attitude
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

True Instant Picture Image
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Textile Built Woven Composed
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Able Aware Become Fright
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Books Public Quarrels
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Hope Knowing Love Only
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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Given Hope Only Sake
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Interest Judgments Matter Only
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

Power Life Facts Present
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Conquers Destruction Ecstasy Frenzy
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Truth Dying Wisdom Art
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Passion Borders Chaos Chaotic
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Away Bird Boredom Dream
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Authority Borrowed Death Everything
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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Armed Work Conviction Leap
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Character Destructive Feeling Life
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Form Human Interpretation Knowledge
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Dresses Etiquette Like Lying
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