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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Bubble Dig Ever Fountain
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Best Imitation Refrain Revenge
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Right If Say True
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Any Anything Ask Beautiful
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The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
Life Opinion Transformation Universe
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Act Every Last Life
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Accustomed All Things Change Consider
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Above Angry Art How
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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Again Cycle Each Everlasting
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Death Desires Flesh Hard
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Death Despise Else Like
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Any Bear Formed Happens
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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Also He Live Man
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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Bees Cannot Good Which
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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Any Good Man Nature
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Act Every Give Last
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If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.
Ox Could Think Attribute
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Emergencies Always Pretext Safeguards
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I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

Think History Exaggeration Largely
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We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish .

Shall Wiser Learn Foolish
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
Mind Advance Foresee Own
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Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Freedom Granted Beforehand Effect
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If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

Wish Preserve Society Essential
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We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Face Preservation Individual Freedom
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Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

Intellect Desire Outstripped Understanding
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We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

Indeed Moment Little Pride
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It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.

Hardly Denied Demand Arbitrarily
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This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

Means Entrust Deliberate According
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The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

Expectation Natural-science Times Exceeded
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It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Criminal Steal Darling Fortune
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The will of man is his happiness.
Happiness Will Man
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Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Every True Genius Bound
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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Done Best Own-time Lived
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Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Knowledge Object Factors Motivate
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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Art Right-hand Nature Made
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He who considers too much will perform little.

Considers Perform Little
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That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Universal Death Benefit
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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Peace Peaceful Denied
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Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Noble Minded Heart Opinion
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Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

Dares-nothing Hope
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Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
Good Natural Leads
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It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Easy Give Advice Port
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There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Thing Chance Seem Merest
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Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Keep Dreams Youth
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Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Grace Beauty Form Influence
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Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Happy Learn Bear Change
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Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Lose Far Time Moment
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Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Full Wisdom Ordination Fate
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There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Room Smallest Happy Loving-pair
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Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Nation Worthless Gladly Stake
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