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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of mans being, unfolding itself in thought.
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Karl Jaspers
philosophy
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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Immanuel Kant
man
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
life
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
—
Imre Lakatos
men
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Lucretius
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Ramana Maharshi
success
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
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Joseph De Maistre
love
We are made to know and love God.
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Nicolas Malebranche
love
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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Gabriel Marcel
life
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
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Herbert Marcuse
men
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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Jacques Maritain
gratitude
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
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Marshall Mcluhan
technology
Society is unity in diversity.
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George Herbert Mead
unity
Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
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Moses Mendelssohn
religion
The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.
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Milarepa
world
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
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George Edward Moore
art
I die the kings faithful servant, but Gods first.
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Thomas More
faith
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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Nagarjuna
art
Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition.
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Robert Nozick
people
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
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Origen
power
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
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Plotinus
present
Man is the measure of all things.
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Protagoras
man
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
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Hilary Putnam
believe
Home is where the heart is.
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Pliny The Elder
art
Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
—
Rajneesh
art
The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
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Tariq Ramadan
philosophy
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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Ramakrishna
religion
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
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John Rawls
justice
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
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Ernest Renan
thinking
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.
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Paul Ricoeur
identity
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
—
Richard Rorty
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
genius
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
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John Searle
will
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Charles De Secondat
religion
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
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Oswald Spengler
life
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Baruch Spinoza
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbors spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
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Edith Stein
love
May my soul bloom in love for all existence.
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Rudolf Steiner
love
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
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Max Stirner
future
In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.
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Emanuel Swedenborg
world
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Tertullian
patience
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
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Thales
life
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
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Theophrastus
man
The first duty of love is to listen.
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Paul Tillich
love
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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Swami Vivekananda
life
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
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Giambattista Vico
words
Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
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Otto Weininger
man
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
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Adam Weishaupt
happiness
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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John Wycliffe
people
The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other.
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Slavoj Žižek
love
From Ad Polybium De Consolatione Of Consolation, To Polybius, chap. I; translation based on work of Aubrey Stewart
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Seneca the Younger
war
There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.
—
Laozi
war
Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
law
Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.
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Paramahansa Yogananda
god
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Zhuangzi
light
1.1.1 Three Volume edition1.1.1.1 Volume I, The Founders 1.1.1.2 Volume II, The Golden Age 1.1.1.3 Volume III: The Breakdown
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Leszek Kołakowski
age
οἱ μὲν ἄλλοι κύνες τοὺς ἐχθροὺς δάκνουσιν, ἐγὼ δὲ τοὺς φίλους, ἵνα σώσω.Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them. Stobaeus, iii. 13. 44
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Diogenes of Sinope
friends
If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is to ask where the results can be applied. The hard pressed man, with his back against the wall, finally unearths the researches of another mathematician B as the locus of the application of his own results. If next B is plagued with a similar question, he will refer to another mathematician C. After a few steps of this kind we find ourselves referred back to the researches of A, and in this way the chain closes.p. 41
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Alfred Tarski
art
Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum.Love the sinner and hate the sin.Opera Omnia, Vol II. Col. 962, letter 211 Alternate translation: With love for mankind and hatred of sins vices.
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Augustine of Hippo
love
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
—
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
time
But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
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Xenophanes
god
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