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4485 Philosopher Quotes

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
People Requisite Success Life
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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Love Never ending Life's wealth
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To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Future Goal Life Live
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One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Another Cannot Convenient Geometry
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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

Keep Little Lives Moments
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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Cultural Culture Goes Itself
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I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

Daughter Fame Happy Money
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

Because Dying Figure Life
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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Bring Find Mountains Only
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It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

About Always Because Good Knows
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If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

Close Four Getting Morning
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The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

About Being Celebrity Funny
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For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

All-Around Around Get He
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What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

Am Deep Deep Down Down
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Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'

After Book Could First
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The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

Buddha Comfortably Computer Cycle
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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

Billions Carbon Chemistry Compounds
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Quality is the Buddha.

Buddha Quality
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It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Evil Looking Produces Things
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

First Hands Heat Heart
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We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

Individual Lntegrity Need Old-Fashioned
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I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

Authors Did Everybody Famous
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There's no such thing as morality.

Morality Thing
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People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.

Always Anything Each Never
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If you run from technology, it will chase you.

Chase Run Technology Will
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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

Always Boredom Creativity Great
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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Always Clear Even Flight
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Language Limits Means World
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Against Battle Intelligence Language
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Enjoy Here Know Order
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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Did Done Ever Get
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Does Door Him Imprisoned
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

Achieve Adjustment Combination Does
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Best Best Picture Body Human
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Cannot Must Silent Speak
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
Confession Life New New Life
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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

Boxer Discussions Goes Like
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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Between Everything Found Grammar
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Consisting Could Entirely Good
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

Chief Concern Him Himself
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Activity A Philosophy Theory
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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Bring Discovery Doing Enables
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Barren Cleverness Come Down
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Complicated Language Less Organism
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Finds Hard Knows Lie
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Am Bad Good Good Nature
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Care Does How Itself
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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Falsehood Logic Prior Truth
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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
Bending Breaks Get Instead
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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Man Nothing Religious Religious Man
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