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"I love those who yearn for the impossible."
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"We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good."
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"If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh."
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"I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
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"The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material."
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"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."
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"He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love."
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"The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect."
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"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
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"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
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"Presume not that I am the thing I was."
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"Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting."
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"For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger direct from God Himself, and my faith in what I now see to be a pseudo-religious philosophy that he preaches.... I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did."
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"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
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"I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy."
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"Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too."
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"The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not."
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"I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself."
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"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."
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