"Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts."
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"These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subject to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, my consciousness would be faced with a blank, I would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent or perhaps that some malady of the brain was hindering its development."
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"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."
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"War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms."
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"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."
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"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."
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"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."
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"Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things."
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"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."
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"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."
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"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."
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"That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget."
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"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."
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"True time is four-dimensional."
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"No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them."
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"A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion."
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"The face is the soul of the body."
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"I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life."
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"No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'."
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"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."
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