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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property

Body Result Right Exist
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Being Beyond Power Only
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

State Value Which Proceed
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

You Think Your Will
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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Success Best Opportunity The
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

You Walk People Look
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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

Dream Heaven Greatness Earth
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear Wisdom Main Source
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There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.

Mind Fill Fear Desire
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest

Method Wisdom Reflection Imitation
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To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said,

Proper Time Lunch Rich
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Command Wealth Free Our
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God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

Diploma Scar Medal Degree
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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer,

Certain Person Speak Excuse
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A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.

Believe Impress Evidence Reject
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Compensate Sense Humor Imagination
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Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

Truth Illusion Destroy Hear
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Respect Around Cease Love
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Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.

Repeat Remember Past Condemned
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

True Fight Front Love
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Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Flow Free Ultimate
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A path is made by walking on it.

Path Walking
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Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

Reward Punishment Education
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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Wise Banks Mountain Emperor
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Happiness is the abscence of the striving for happiness.

Happiness Absence
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To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.

Mind Still Universe
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
Leap Distinctions Boundless
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
Truly Knowledge Ignorant
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The sound of water says what I think.
Water Sounds
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If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
Heart Intellectual Insight
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
Sleep Awakening Quiet
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When the heart is right,
Against For Heart
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
Great Wisdom Petty Contentious
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And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
Death Like Home I
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Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him.
Word Man Forgotten
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Lies Men Honor Dependent
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

Affirmation Faded Negation
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
Cherish You
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Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.
Entrusted Empire Fit Only
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The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

Thief Petty Feudal
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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

Eye Creature Envious Snake
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Life Good Moral Cheat
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Same River Step Twice
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Begin Sense Reason Knowledge
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

Equal Life Harm Health
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Reason Form Always Reasonable
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Create Kindness Word Love
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All art is but imitation of nature.
Nature Art Imitation But
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Love Enjoy Privilege Precious
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Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

Transformation Cease
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