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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Begun Birth Death Fire
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All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

Men Mortal Themselves Think
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Base Death Fear Less
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Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

Beneath Build Low Stars
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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordlings enjoy.

Enjoy Little Mortals Know
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Death Desert Great Life
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By night an atheist half believes in a God.

Atheist Believes God Half
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One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

Art Destroy Fame Hand
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Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
Friend Nature Read Truth
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The course of Nature is the art of God.

Art Course God Nature
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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

Wise Bliss Weak Joys
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

Confine Angels Grave Arm
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Clouds Down Drop Estates
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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

Safety Trust Plank Loves
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Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.

Forever Less Live Miracle
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
Wanton Killing Civilians Terrorism
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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Major Communication Interact Century
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There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Problems Survival Nuclear Catastrophe
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If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

Corporation Honesty Creating Conditions
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It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
Miracle Nuclear War Avoided
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Conventional Doctrine True Neptune
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

State People Moral Institutions
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Nuremberg Post-war American President
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
Dictator Admire Uniformity Obedience
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We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Example Fairly Confident Inhabited
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I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Thought Rational Dictatorship American
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

Unlimited Growth Privilege Unnoticed
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Principle Psychological Product History
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Language Principles Generation Interpretation
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Intellectual Sevility Power Betray
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Popular Propaganda Pressure Helpless
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Education Self-fulfilment Environment Explore
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Terminal Existence Democracy Ideals
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Propaganda Democracy Bludgeon Totalitarian
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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Justification Cultural Deficit Survival
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Increase Drug Crime Immigrants
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Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Resistance Detest Reality Hegemony
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
Bible Genocidal History
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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Terrorism Easy Participating
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To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Degree Office Pressure Public
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Argument Violence
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Human Language Phenomenon Analogue
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The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

Honored Bible Prophets Jailed
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How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

People Perceive Question Interest
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Governments don't control people like they used to.
Governments Control People
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Someday Mastering Winds Waves
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed

Growing Old Penalized
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Happened Analysis Bad Good
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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Links Love Draws Element
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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Love Capable Uniting Fulfill
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