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4485 Philosopher Quotes

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have.

Every one Listens Genuine True guide
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Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

Love No awareness Merit Demerit
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In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Stillness Listen Whisper Heart
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Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God....I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.

Prayer Communication Between God Man
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Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

Silent No limit Power Be released
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Ask what makes you come alive and go do it.
Ask Come alive Do it
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The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

Measure Man's estimate Strength Weapons
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Growth always involves the risk of failure.

Growth Involves Risk Failure
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There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?

Question Ask ourselves Going With me
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A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

Dream Bearer New possibility
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To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.
Love Make Heart Door
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Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

Fate Raw material Unanticipated Destiny
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Life wears down the edges of the mind.

Life wears Edges Mind
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Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

Twilight Time Pause Nature
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Perfect love is long delayed.
Perfect love Delayed
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He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

Who fears Delivered Destruction
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At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.
Life Hard purposefulness To live
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What the world need is people who have come alive.

World People Come alive
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Follow the grain in your own wood....

Follow Grain Own wood
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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware

All journeys Secret destinations
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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

People relate Authentically Humanly God
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The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

The atheist Nearer To God Believer
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We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Be redeemed Extent See ourselves
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Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

Everyone must Come out Exile
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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Using power Compulsion World Cautious
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The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

The world Comprehensible Embraceable
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Solitude is the place of purification.

Solitude Place Purification
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And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.

Devil Against God Eternity No decision
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To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

Look away World Reach God
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Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers..

Love Responsibility Consist Feeling
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One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
Nature Expect Turned Club
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Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

Identified With love Real outgoing
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I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me

Close My door Surrender myself Book
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Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation.

Have something Stands In relation
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Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

Nothing Doom man Belief Movement
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For God does not want to be believed in, to be debated and defended by us, but simply to be realized through us.

God Want Believe in Defended
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The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now—or, as Buber puts it, in the present.

Possible relationship God Address
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What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple. Men prefer to forget how many possibilities are open to them.

Manifold Frightening Prefer How many
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

My manner Thinking Approved.i care
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It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure

Pain One arrives Pleasure
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Know virtue Acquaint ourselves Vice
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

Sexual pleasure Passion Subordinate
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

Expounded Theologians Conclude God created
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Lust Other passions Nervous fluid Life
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

Dirty element Gives pleasure Lust
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

All universal Moral Principle Idle fancies
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

The man Alters His way Thinking
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The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.
Only way Woman's heart Torment
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.

Doing here Image Like to
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Mode Thought Misfortunes Others
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