"I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants."
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"Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you."
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"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."
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"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."
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"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul."
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"My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"
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"The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures."
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"You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done."
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"Belief creates the actual fact."
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"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."
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"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles."
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"There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt."
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"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions."
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"The possible ranks higher than the actual."
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"Democracy passes into despotism."
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"No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death."
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"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
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"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."
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"Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge."
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"The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away."
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