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"The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music."
"Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death."
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
"Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired."
"I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major."
"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."
"It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances."
"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."
"Where there is no property there is no injustice."
"In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature."
"The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism."
"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."
"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
"Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations."
"People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in."
"You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks."
"You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation."
"To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed."
"A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants"
