"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."
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"You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else."
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"The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!""
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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
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"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."
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"I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye."
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"The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the "back to nature" optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom."
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"He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost."
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"According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat"
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"Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence."
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"Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright."
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"There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads."
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"Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something."
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"Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens."
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"An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind."
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"No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority."
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"What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically."
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"In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination."
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"Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence."
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"In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'"
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