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4485 Philosopher Quotes

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

World Forget You Easy
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You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.

Success Season Ocean Summer
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It can be passed on, but not received. It can be obtained, but not seen.
Passed Obtained
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.

Forgotten Man Words
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The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

Thousands Sage Mind Distract
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All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!

Use Men Nobody
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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

Learn Child Speak Teachers
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Flow with whatever may happen + let your mind be free. .. stay centered, by accepting whatever you're doing. .. this is the ultimate.

Ultimate Flow Mind Free
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Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger.

You Life Will Knowledge
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The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.

Responding Mirror Perfect
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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed.

Personal Vastness Room Spirit
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Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

Value
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A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.
Good Completion Long
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The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

Heaven Forgotten
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The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

Spirit Guardian
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Don't go in and hide; don't come out and shine; stand stock-still in the middle.

Middle Hide Shine
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When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.

Like Will Echo
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He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.

Life Nature Change
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But a gentleman may embrace a doctrine without necessarily wearing the garb that goes with it, and he may wear the garb without necessarily comprehending the doctrine.

Doctrine Embrace
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Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

Understand Shallow
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We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.

Alone Beautiful Blind Deaf
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When a hideous man becomes a father And a son is born to him In the middle of the night He trembles and lights a lamp And runs to look in anguish On that child's face To see who he resembles.

Child Father
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Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.
Death Life
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Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

Will Profit
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Eyes that are blind have no way to tell the loveliness of faces and features; eyes with no pupils have no way to tell the beauty of colored and embroidered silks.

Loveliness Eyes Coloured
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Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs.

I
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When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.
True
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People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of them. But those who don't excuse their faults and admit they didn't deserve to be spared - they are few.

People
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Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage, unaware that they were incapable of stopping it? Such was the high opinion it had of its talents.

You Talents
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To use a horse to show that a horse is not a horse is not as good as using a non-horse to show that a horse is not a horse...

Horse
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Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.

Homage Understanding Upon Play
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In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.

Alone Darkness Dawn Harmony
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
Finest
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If you were to hide the world in the world, so that nothing could get away, this would be the final reality of the constancy of things.

You World
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Sand Escape Life See
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It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

Dangerous People Privacy Willing
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Happy Moment Life Your
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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Life Part Large Give
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Politics End Participate Being
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Friend Change Better Shadow
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

World Great Constant You
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Page Read Travel World
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Marry Good Happy Become
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Only Life Must Lived
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The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

War Receive Position Enemy
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Emotion Action Translate Compassion
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We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Love Reject Share Truth
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.

See Able Further Far
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Down Liberty Peace Defense
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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Know Define Ask Act
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