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4485 Philosopher Quotes

The prophets never taught that God and history are one, or that whatever happens below reflects the will of God above. Their vision is of man defying God, and God seeking man to reconcile with Him.

Prophets Never Taught God
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Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

Jew Decays Integrity Knowledge
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

Wonder Radical Amazement Attitude
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In Jewish tradition, dying in one’s sleep is called a kiss of God, and dying on the Sabbath is a gift that is merited by piety. For the pious person, my father once wrote, it is a privilege to die.

Tradition Jewish Dying Piety
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Short is the way from need to greed.

Greed Short Need
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What seems to be a stone is a drama.
Stone Drama Seems
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Only that which is good for all men is good for every man. No one is truly inspired for his own sake. He who is blessed, is a blessing for others.

Truly Good Men Every man
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

Know Understanding Noble Sentiments
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There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness in man which only holiness can ventilate.

Fear God Cruel Deeds
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The solution of mankind’s most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.

Solution Mankind Technical Civilization
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Awe precedes faith.

Awe Faith Precedes
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The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.

Surest Ability Meaning Worship
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
Wise Criticism Begins Self-criticism
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Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man.

Grandeur Universe Meaning Admit
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Happy is he who is aware of the mysteries of his Lord.

Happy Lord Aware Mysteries
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Sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude.

Sanctification Dependent Human Attitude
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Just as we are commanded to keep the Sabbath, we are commanded to labor.

Labor Commanded Keep Sabbath
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Unless one learns how to relish the taste of Sabbath … one will be unable to enjoy the taste of eternity in the world to come.

Learns Taste Sabbath Eternity
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We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.

Examine Task God Ego
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No man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.

Free Man Liberties Discipline
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
AllThings Cause God Things
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Absence Benevolence Confidence Disposition
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Fear Hope NoFear NoHope
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Alone Consent Entire Free
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Aid Beyond Care Every
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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Bad Deaf Good Indifferent
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confused
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Desire is the essence of a man.
Desire Essence Man
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Also Direct Fame Fancy
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

BeTheFirst First Flattery More
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Cannot Fear Hope Nor
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Abject Ambitious Believed Envious
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Despondency Greatest Ignorance Pride
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
Eternal Feel Know
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Actions Alone Determined Exists
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Ambition Desire Power
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Indignant Understand Wax Weep
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Born Conception Evil Form
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Absurd Contrary Nature Reason
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Basis Endeavor First Only
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Intellect Same SameThing Thing
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
Call Free Him Led
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Direction Life Reason True
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Happiness Reward Virtue
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Desire is the very essence of man.

Desire Essence Man Very
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

AllThings Difficult Excellent Rare
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Itself Reward Virtue
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Does Effect Exists Follow
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Arising Highly Himself Man
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BeDifferent Different Past Present
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