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4485 Philosopher Quotes

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Society Heroic Dimension
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Cowardice Courage Love Feelings
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We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

Time Envying People Wish
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Beauty Art Ugliness Subdued
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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Minds Humanity Power Hearts
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Admirable Fortitude Tolerate Wealth
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Truth Great Minds Fight
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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Science Gods Worthy Men
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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we

Stupidity Vanity Fail Direction
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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Think Why We Computers
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The obligation to endure gives us the right to know

Obligation Endure Right Know
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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Falsity Idea Beautiful Mind
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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

Take heed Critics Fair Resist
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Pessimism Point Sincerity
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A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Married Suited Partners Quarrel
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Watch Modesty Prescence Grounds
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Man Old Seeking Something
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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Important Science Forget Things
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There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

Moments Truth Opinion Cost
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Nobility Human being Strictly Convictions
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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Love Idea Little
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It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

Offend Thoughts Expressed Souls
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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Nothing Leads Scientist Truth
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

Moments Wish Future Past
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In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

Ideals Reveal Vices
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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Politics Lie Flatter Today's
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Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day

Marriage Simplifies Life Complicates
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Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

Science Free Minds Instincts
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To live is often to struggle toward goals one has a desire to reach.
Live Struggle Goals Desire
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Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

Being right Important Freedom Wrong
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There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.

Big Little Truths Race
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Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Literature Proclaiming Careful Conceal
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Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite

Community Love People Ignore
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We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Called God Extraordinary Love
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Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.

People Talking Community Live
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Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness
Growth Begins Accept Weakness
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If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Grow Love Egoism Choices
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A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.

Christian Community Jesus Love
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When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

Love Respect People Value
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People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

People Evil Love Trusted
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It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community.

Failings Sufferings Life Community
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When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.

Children Live Hearts Respect
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Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

Human activity Service Love Gift
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Weakness, recognized, accepted, and offered, is at the heart of belonging, so it is at the heart of communion with another.

Weakness Heart Communion
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That is the fundamental question; how to trust that she has a heart and that she can, little by little, receive love, be transformed by love, and then give love.

Question Trust Heart Love
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To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.
Love Beauty Worth Importance
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Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

Love Heroic Ordinary Tenderness
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All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

Secret Desire Afraid Children
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Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.

Envy People's Ignorance Gifts
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Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood.

Act Violence Message Understood
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