"Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action."
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"I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals."
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"Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born."
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"Art is science in the flesh."
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"Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like. v One could wish no easier death than that of Socrates, calmly discussing philosophy with his friends; one could fear nothing worse than that of Jesus, dying in torment, among the insults, the mockery, the curses of the whole nation. In the midst of these terrible sufferings, Jesus prays for his cruel murderers. Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Christ are those of a God."
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"We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced."
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"The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?"
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"I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies."
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"All our knowledge is symbolic."
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"Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake."
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"The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon."
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"I have examined all religions, as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened means, and my busy life, would allow; and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more philosophy than all the libraries I have seen."
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"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then."
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"The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness."
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"The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear."
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"The fork is the most powerful tool ever placed in our hands."
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"The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey."
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"The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle."
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"Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up."
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"I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with very few people about very few things in very narrow terms and yet still believed (and still believe today) that there was something that I was getting myself involved in when I said I wanted to study philosophy."
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