"It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born."
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"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
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"When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it."
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"Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story."
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"When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly."
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"Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves."
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"The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction."
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"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."
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"I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen backdrops, but it's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary."
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"I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult."
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"Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more."
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"We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy."
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"If you love your life, everybody will love you too."
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"Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form."
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"Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob."
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"When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher."
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"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."
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"The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy"
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"How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do."
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"The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous."
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