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4485 Philosopher Quotes

When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

Like Water Love Pluck
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Life is so very hard. How can we be anything but kind?

Life Hard Kind Very
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Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another.

One Another Can Depend
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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Word Utter Good People
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Idle Short Road People
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Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.

World Entire Love Towards
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You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Deserve Love Much Entire
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Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole.

Love Gift Most Soul
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We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.

Mind Perfect Exercise Sabilize
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Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Cease Time Love Law
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Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing.

Speak Speech Bring Thing
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One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

Noble Harm Being One
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Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.

Protect Would Child Life
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

Rise Die Least Sick
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It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Man Own Mind Evil
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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox.

Base Mind Led Act
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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Mind Nothing Obidient There
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A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing.

Mind Sorrow Fear Blessing
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Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

Know River Small Cleft
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See them, floundering in their sense of mine, like fish in the puddles of a dried-up stream — and, seeing this, live with no mine, not forming attachment for states of becoming.

See Sense Mind Stream
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All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.

Mind Create Master Their
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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Enjoy Good True Bring
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All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Wrong Mind Remain All
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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Today Come Life Build
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Transcendental intelligence rises when the intellectual mind reaches its limit and if things are to be realized in their true and essential nature, its processes of thinking must be transcended by an appeal to some higher faculty of cognition.

Limit True Nature Appeal
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Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought.

State Chief Mental Their
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If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

Pure Person Speak Follow
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Teach Same Work Thing
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Alive Man Know One
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Work Most Part Important
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

State Music Change Danger
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The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

Soul Next World Culture
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Exercise Harm Body Hold
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

Every Seem Most Desire
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The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Society Describe Grow Reality
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Free Either Least Know
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderment of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind’s eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye.

Sense Common Remember Eye
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It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

Feel Own Grow Owe
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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
Money Company Standard Value
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Price Good Evil Rule
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill … we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Presume City State Eloquent
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Liberty Most Extreme Slavery
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Object State Whole Class
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

State Person Ought Good
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Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Democracy Form Government Variety
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Wise Speak Fool Say
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Heart Sing Song Poet
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Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

Music Soul Universe Wing
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Kind Meet Battle Fighting
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“Excellence” is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act “rightly” because we are “excellent”; in fact we achieve “excellence” by acting “rightly”.

Excellence Gift Skill Practice
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