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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

Guilty Responsible Few
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

Blessing Just Live Holy
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

Faith Clinging Shrine Endless
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Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Root Discipline Sense Dignity
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

Happiness Beginning Lies Life
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

Reason Arrogance Betrays Intelligence
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

Prayer Begins Edge Emptiness
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

God Importance Supreme
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
Prayer Answer Humble Surprise
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

Talent Capacity Surprised Life
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A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Prophet Greatness Ability God
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Character Disposition Mind Seen
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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Ailment Between Fatal Imbalance
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Painting Poetry Silent Speaks
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Belief Better Contempt God
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Few Many Sufficient Vices
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Neither blame or praise yourself.
Blame Neither Praise Yourself
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Achieve Change Inwardly Outer
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Badly Even How Know
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Cannot Little Many More
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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Excel Excellent Extent Knowledge
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Ancestors Belongs Desirable Glory
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The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Commission Evil Good Less
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The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Among Benefits Destroyer Donations
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All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Asleep Awake Common Each
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Education Good Good Education Honesty
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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Best Horses Make Wildest
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Adversity Balance Friends Just
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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Aim Also Deeds Great
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Character is simply habit long continued.
Character Continue Habit Long
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Fortunate Happiness Less Speak
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To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Antiquity Celebrated Childhood Continue
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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

A Good Man Deeds Everything Good
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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Both Box Contains Door
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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Create Discord Disease Examine
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Adversity Direct Easily Harder
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Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Avoiding Carefully Endeavor Enemies
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Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

City Failings Far Faults
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Filled Fire Mind Vessel
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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Bricks Chance Clay Ever
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Better Difficult Easy Fault
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Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Fate Follows Him Leads
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Any Better Proper Season
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Being Cause Consists Courage
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Errors Future Good Learn
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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

Away Creatures Household Like
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For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Err Human Least Men
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

Pray Dream League God
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Racism Threat Gravest Hatred
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

True Meaning Existence Disclosed
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