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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Anything Art Cunning Face
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Better Confused Indifference Misguided
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

Change Falling Falling In Love Go
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Affairs Human Human Affairs Serious
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

Abolish Catastrophe Comfort Equivalent
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Comfort Relationship Substitute Supplied
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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Art Particular Sort Struggle
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Being Everyone I Think Important
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
Anything Being Holy Made
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Between Doing Many Out
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Continuous Distant Hear Other
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Every Every Man Man Man Needs
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Charming Chiefly Falling Forgetting
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Moving Pace Philosophy Snail
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Certain Could Disciplined Emotions
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Better Doomed Future How
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Conceited Digest Eating Empty
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Base Calls Entirely Even
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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Brown Generic Like Moral
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Absolute Another Body Human
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

Anywhere Get Marriage Public
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Almost Always Becomes Demands
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Disciple Teacher You
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I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

Die Know Might Some
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'

Able Being Believe Every
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Reality is what you can count on.
Count Reality You
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

Based Because Character Decisions
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The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.

Aim Community Creation Glorious
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Hang Hero How Knows
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Artist Belongs His Work
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Heals Inflicted Poetry Reason
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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Age Children Golden GoldenAge
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Artist Interpret Life Meaning
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A character is a completely fashioned will.

Character Will
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Christianity Democracy Fact Highest
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Doing Enjoyment Height Learning
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

AsFarAs Family FamilyLife Far
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Dream Dreaming Near Waking
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Faith Half Knowledge OneHalf
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Character Fate Same SameThing
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Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Gods Rule Where
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
City Magic Nature Petrified
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

Closely ConnectedInvisible More Than
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

Everywhere Home Philosophy Properly
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
Comprehend Far More Never
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Character Conception Deeply Ever Fate
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Acquainted Against Become Disputed
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
Beloved Center Every Object
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

Divinity Indispensable Links Mediator
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Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Being Concerned Faith State
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