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4485 Philosopher Quotes

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Accept Being Courage Oneself
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Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Created
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The first duty of love is to listen.

Duty First Listen Love
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Answers Asking Being Even
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Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Act Being Concerned Consists
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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Being Courage Decision Free
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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Astonishment Philosophy Root
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There is no love which does not become help.

Become Does Help Love
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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Again Day Embarrassment Everyone
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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Clouds Leaves Moving Respond
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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Answer Being Concern Concerns
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Created
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Boredom is rage spread thin.

Boredom Rage Spread Thin
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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

Avoiding Being Neurosis Way
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Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
Doubt Element Faith Opposite
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Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

Also Always Cruelty Others
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

Measures Sing Song Stirring
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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Act Being Faith Finite
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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Asked Become Destiny Fulfill
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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Expresses
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The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Anxiety Appears Courage Disappeared
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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Being Fails Failure Forgiven
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Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Able Alone Because Concern
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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

Achievements Ambiguity Awareness Deepest
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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Between Conflict Hands Means
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It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

Absolutely Awareness Critical Essential
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The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

Confidence Leaders People Reflects
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How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

Beings Developing Divided How
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Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

Born Entity Oppressor Revolution
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Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.

Because Cannot Components Domination
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Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Begin Both Contradiction Education
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Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
Acts Consists Education Information
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The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

Adopted Fearful Freedom Guidelines
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It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

Brazil Critical Land Make
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Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.
Every Examine Itself Needs
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I am an educator who thinks globally.

Am Educator Globally IAm
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Education is freedom.

Education Freedom
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Cannot Impossible Misunderstood Speak
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Finite Ignorance Infinite Knowledge
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Adopt Argument Attitude Does
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

Anything Earth Hell Never
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Art May Science Systematic
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Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

Again Alive Flawed Good
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Begin Criticism Must Myths
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We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

Become Fate Makers Our
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Freedom Make Must Only
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Beyond Ends Engineering Physical
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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

About Does Far Must
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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Aspects Elevated Histories History
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

Appears Intended Neither Nor
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