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4485 Philosopher Quotes

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.

The secrets This earth All men Seek them
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Worry is a waste of emotional reserve.

Worry A waste Emotional reserve
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Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.

Don't think Believe Your heart Your brain
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In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

Free society Are irrational Is free
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Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

Positivism A theory Knowledge Sound knowledge
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The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Sacred formula Positivism Love A principle
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Know yourself to improve yourself.

Know yourself To improve
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

Nothing Is destroyed Is replaced
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

Reorganized society Without God Systematic culture Humanity
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
Woman Most moral Element All humanity
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

Religion An illusion Childhood Outgrown
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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Real life Collective life The race No existence
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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Each department Knowledge Passes through Three stages
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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

Every science The coordination Different observations
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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

Not allow Free thinking Chemistry Biology
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Foreknowledge is power.

Foreknowledge Is power
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

To understand A science To know Its history
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Ideas Govern The world Into chaos
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Humanity Made up More dead Than living
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All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts.

Good intellects Have repeated Real knowledge Observed facts
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The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.

The law Leading conceptions Our knowledge Passes successively
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The dead govern the living.

The dead Govern The living
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The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

The word Right Excluded from Political language
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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

No one So old Think May live
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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Rashness Belongs To youth Prudence
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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

The character A brave Resolute man Ruffed
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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.

Friendship Prosperity brighter Lightens adversity Griefs
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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Taken up The search Neglect The needful
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No one can give you better advice than yourself.

No one Give you Better advice Yourself
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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundaries

Human life Marked out Defined limits Old age
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Natural ability Without education Often attained Glory
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Ability without honor is useless.

Ability Without honor Is useless
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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment
By muscle Speed Physical dexterity Great things
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The more laws, the less justice.

More laws Less justice
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Time destroys The speculation Men Confirms nature
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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Old age An honored Great authority More value
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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

What greater Better gift We offer The republic
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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

The soul In sleep Gives proof Divine nature
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By doubting we come at truth.

By doubting We come At truth
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Fear Last teacher Duty
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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of being some day a commander.

The man Who commands Have obeyed The past
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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Pursue good With labor Passes away Good remains
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Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

Crimes Be measured The issues Event
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Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.

Wise men Are instructed By reason Less understanding
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They condemn what they do not understand.

They condemn Not understand
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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

So cement Hold together A society Faith
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Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is.

Men Not realize How great Revenue economy
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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Never admire Another's fortune Became dissatisfied My own
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The foundation of justice is good faith.

The foundation Justice Good faith
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Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

Discover truth As easily Uncover falsehood
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