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"Early in life, I decided that I would not be overcome by events. My philosophy has been that regardless of the circumstances, I shall not be vanquished, but will try to be happy. Life is not easy for any of us. But it is a continual challenge, and it is up to us to be cheerful - and to be strong, so that those who depend on us may draw strength from our example."
"We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another."
"Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you."
"In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the care with which we cultivate them, and apply ourselves to the deduction of diverse consequences from them, thinking that we are philosophizing well, while we are only departing the farther from the truth; from which it must be inferred that they who have learned the least of all that has been hitherto distinguished by the name of philosophy are the most fitted for the apprehension of truth."
"There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of texts of the past, as well as singular works of our own time. Deconstruction is also a certain thinking about tradition and context. Mark Taylor evokes this with great clarity in the course of a remarkable introduction. He reconstitutes a set of premises without which no deconstruction could have seen the light of day."
"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them."
"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."
"If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?"
"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!"
"That’s the interesting thing about the philosophy — to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment."
"Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?"
"Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious."
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."
"An honest man is always a child."
"The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity."
"My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors."
"Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing."
"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."
"If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you."
"The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more."
