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"Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear."
"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes."
"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes."
"As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears."
"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors."
"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."
"Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics."
"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
"If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person. From Aristotle to Heidegger, they try to consider their own lives as something marginal or accidental. What was essential was their teaching and their thinking. Biography is something empirical and outside, and is considered an accident that isn't necessarily or essentially linked to the philosophical activity or system."
"To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive."
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."
"Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it."
"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."
"In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross."
"The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds."
