"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
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"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."
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"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."
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"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men."
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"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."
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"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."
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"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."
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"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
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"Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die."
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"Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile"
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"The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought."
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"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property."
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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."
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"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
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"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."
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"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it."
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"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."
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"Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex."
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"Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one."
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"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."
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