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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Possibility Luxury Crucial
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I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

Think Sexual Position Comic
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Masculine Feminine Roles Socially
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I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

Gender Feminism Women Equality
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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Gender Identity Expressions Results
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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

Love Feeling History Vision
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To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

Operate Power Domination
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

Truth People Clear Strong
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Nature has no history.

Nature History
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Language is the house of Being.

Language House Being
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.

Questions Justice Subject Bridges
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

Human being Lord Shepherd Being
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

Poets Vanguard Conception Being
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

Thinks Great Thoughts Errors
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Making Intelligible Suicide Philosophy
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Everyone One Himself
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

Longing Agony Distant
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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

Empty Word Worn Full
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Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

Temporality Future Present Process
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Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

Transcedence Constitutes Selfhood
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We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

Fear Expectations Frontiers Destiny
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How one encounters reality is a choice.

Enconters Reality Choice
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Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Virtue Flourish Equals
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Political Extreme Productive Evil
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
Justice Charity Wanting World
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Strengthen Female Mind Obedience
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Men Women Educated Society
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The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Being Virtuous Authority Reason
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable—and life is more than a dream.

Resides Heart Life Dream
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Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Hand Erases Write True
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When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.

Soul Experience Image Steps
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Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

God Outburst Compassion
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If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, it is enough.
Prayer Thank you Enough
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For it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

Works Sanctify
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Indeed, the more we are our own possession, the less we are God’s possession.

Possession God's
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Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Darkness Finds Light Sorrow
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Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

Wisdom Heart Delight
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Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

Love Death Soul Body
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Nobody at any time is cut off from God.

Nobody Time Cut off God
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Every creature is a word of God.

Creature Word God
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We rarely find people who achieve great things without first going astray.

Find Achieve Great things Astray
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Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

Truth Noble God
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Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

Theologians Mystics World Language
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Price Inaction Cost Mistake
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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

God Man Peaceful Heart
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One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be

One Learn Solitude
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The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

Outward Work Inward Great
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I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth

Truth Mind Barrier Truth
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We must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

Transformed Ignorance Knowledge
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There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the door of your own heart.

Look God Door Heart
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