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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Accompanied Cause Idea Oneself
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Absence Based Character Peace
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Absolutely Arts Freedom Liberal
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Becoming Established How Know
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Capacity Had Happier Men
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Actions Hate Human HumanActions
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Attached Depends Happiness Love
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Desires Difficulty Govern Men
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Activity Attain Because Being
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Actions Ceaseless Effort Human
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Bad Cannot Civil Common
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Accepted Astonished BeTrue Because
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Absence Benevolence Confidence Disposition
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Become Come Easily He
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Conceived God Nothing Whatsoever
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature

AllThings Conditioned Contingent Divine
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Cannot Consequently Determined He
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Lie Man Annihilate Dignity
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Nothing Divine Agreeable Reason
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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Human Ends Use Recognize
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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Principle Action Made Law
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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Live Life Act Universal
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination

Happiness Ideal Reason Imagination
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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

Imperative Represented Objectively Necessary
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Against Beings Conditioning Control
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The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Destroy First First People Free
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

About Appear Barbarians Came
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
Patterns Perceive Understand Wisdom
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Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Against Being Established Ever
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Collective Cured Evils Fighting
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The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Chains Else Enslavement Extension
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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Adult Asking Childish Persist
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The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Absolute Certainties Childhood Craving
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Behind Comparison Front Inside
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Adopt Her Nature Pace
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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Angry Every Give Mind
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Any Defeats Fear More
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Conspires Decision Happen Make
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Achieved Enthusiasm Ever Great
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Every burned book enlightens the world.

Book Burned Enlightens Every
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Choirs Friends Growth His
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Give Only Poor Refuse
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Balanced Easy Find Gifts
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Change Enjoyed Lose Used
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Also Character Confession Opinion
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

Europe Listened Long Muses
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The years teach much which the days never know.

Days Know Much Never
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All mankind love a lover.
Love Lover Mankind
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Friend Only Way
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Above Aim Hit Mark
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