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4485 Philosopher Quotes

I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Bar that, I have in me all the dreams of the world.

I Never Dream World
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To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.

Remember Today Feel Yesterday
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Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.
Everything Interest Me Nothing
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The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.

Chill Feel Gnaws Present
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Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity.

Morning Life Stupidity
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From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I

Much Self-destroyed Self-thinking Thoughts
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To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves.

Love Cowardice Betrayal Ourselves
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

Life Little I Denied
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

Also Good He Him
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Another occupation might have been better.
Another Been Better Might
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

Book Conceived Executed Extent
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Admire Desiring Happiness Secret
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

Bad Believe Find Finding
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

Attract Become Change Economy
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

Another Answered Blow Brains
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

Dislike Find Indecent Naked
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Any Every False Must
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Complete Deadliest Foe Self-Knowledge
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Aphorism Blood Cold Dull
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

Adam Arrive Conceived Eve
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

Against Better Blow Depends
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Nothing Treated Means
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Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

Truth True Virtue Entire
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

Teach Tongue Shalt Progress
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

Anticipate Charity Preventing Poverty
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

Physician Treat Disease Patient
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

Everyone Entrusted Mission Angel
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Give Man Fish Day
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

Consider Proof Written Books
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

Realm Nature Purposeless Trivial
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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Eight Charity Highest Help
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We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.

Obligated Scrupulous Fulfilling Commandment
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Risk Wrong Decision Preferable
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You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Must Accept Truth Source
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There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of the mother for the young are not produced by reasoning, but by feeling, and this faculty exists not only in humans but in most living beings.”

Difference Between Pain Humans
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He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

Metaphysics Confused Matters Religion
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Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.

Inspire Love Art Creatures
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The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

Soul Subject Health Disease
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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

Destroy Enemies Converting Friends
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All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. All hatred would come to an end when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.

Evil Desires Opinion Religious
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Fantasy Fantasy World Find Great
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

About Flowers Joy Mad
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Being Being Busy Busy Consciousness
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Difficult Love Love Is Oneself
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Amazed Commit Getting Getting Married
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Enlightening Eyes Falling Love
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We can only learn to love by loving.
Learn Love Loving Only
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
Cry Down Equality Everyone
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Come Evil Letting Lies
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Being End Good In The End
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