"History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce."
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"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property."
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"I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can."
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"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you."
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"Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty."
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"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
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"Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself."
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"All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread."
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"The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members"
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"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
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"If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse."
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"That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy."
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"Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?"
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"Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety."
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"The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?"
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"A cult is a religion with no political power."
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"In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun."
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"The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception."
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"Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence."
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"Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way."
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