"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature."
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"Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food"
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"The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it."
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"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches."
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"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."
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"When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested."
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"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all."
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"Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails."
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"The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."
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"Philosophy begins in wonder."
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"The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing."
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"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows."
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"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
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"..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they themselves, upon their own topics, if they argue consistently, must allow to be solid and satisfactory."
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"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
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"Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out."
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"When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."
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"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
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"Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs."
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"If we don't know life, how can we know death?"
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