"Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam."
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"I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem."
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"I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better. I guess I was a philosophical child."
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"I guess I was a philosophical child."
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"The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost."
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"Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved."
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"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."
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"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."
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"Sweet is the memory of past troubles."
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"Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money."
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"No obligation to do the impossible is binding."
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"What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine."
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"Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be."
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"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature."
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"When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world."
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"When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them."
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"I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means."
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"I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical."
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"Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion."
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"The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values."
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