Philosophy Quotes
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Men acquire particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
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Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
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Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.
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Each man judges well the things he knows.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.
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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
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Words build bridges into unexplored regions.
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Great liars are also great magicians.
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Hate is more lasting than dislike.
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Always be listening and learning.
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To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
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It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
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When knowledge is limited – it leads to folly… When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
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He who fears to weep should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.