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• If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Philosophy, Artist

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.169, Courier Corporation

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• Whether people know the evolution of the conversation or not, I don't know, but thematically, as a comedian, I stay in the same ballpark - around my issues and my philosophy of life.

  Marc Maron

  Philosophy, Issues, People

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Philosophy, Triumphant

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• If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Philosophy, Men, Care

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• Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense cannot give us a full life, nor can knowledge alone. No life is full unless it is linked to some- thing that goes on after we are dead.... If we have nothing more to live for than just to get ahead in a competitive system, then democracy will go down before other philosophies.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Life, Philosophy, Knowledge

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• Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Philosophy, Immortal

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• One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do not have or do not believe in a standard of moral values. Many in the world today operate on the basis of practical expediency. You have undoubtedly observed this yourselves. It has become a philosophy of life for many. This is true among nations as well as among individuals.

  King Hussein I

  Life, Philosophy, Believe

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• The main thing Karate offers to me is a philosophy of life. The philosophy of Karate is respect and discipline. You give 100% of whatever you do, in every activity.

  Lyoto Machida

  Art, Philosophy, Discipline

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• I don't really have a life philosophy; my thing is just rebelling against pretty much organized religion. That is my main thing, because personally I think it's a crutch for people that are too weak to get through life on their own. I'm the kind of guy that says if I don't see it, then it doesn't work. And nobody can show me God.

  Kerry King

  Philosophy, Thinking, People

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• I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

  Jim Carrey

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

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• Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.

  Thomas Szasz

  Philosophy, Mean, Advice

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  The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When I speak about the "tyranny of choice," I mean an ideology that originates in the era of post-industrial capitalism. It began with the American Dream - the idea of the self-made man, who works his way up from rags to riches. By and by, this career concept developed into a universal life philosophy. Today we believe we should be able to choose everything: the way we live, the way we look, even when it comes to the coffee we buy, we constantly need to weigh our decision. That is extremely unhealthy.

  Renata Salecl

  Dream, Philosophy, Coffee

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me. So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

  Andy Warhol

  Mother, Husband, Years

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Philosophy, Tragedy, Life Is

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.108, Random House

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• Satyagraha is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that truth should be the cornerstone of everybody's life and that we must dedicate our lives to pursuing truth, to finding out the truth in our lives. And so his entire philosophy was the philosophy of life. It was not just a philosophy for conflict resolution, but something that we have to imbibe in our life and live it all the time so that we can improve and become better human beings.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Truth, Philosophy, Grandfather

  "Satyagraha 100 Years Later: Gandhi Launches Modern Non-Violent Resistance Movement on Sept. 11, 1906". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 8, 2006.

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• What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Peace, Philosophy, Ubuntu

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• Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.

  Marcel Proust

  Philosophy, Intonation

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.

  William Morris Hunt

  Art, Philosophy, Light

  William Morris Hunt (1878). “W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais”

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  My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

  Cary Grant

  Life, Morning, Simple

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• My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths.

  Harlan Ellison

  Philosophy, Frustration, Life Is

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “The Harlan Ellison Hornbook”, p.208, Open Road Media

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• The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Blessed, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Animal, Humanity

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• Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

  William James

  Philosophy, Way, Facts

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.149, Xist Publishing

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• A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and uniqueness of others, when we subscribe to that religious philosophy of life that insists that God has made each man and woman an individual sacred personality endowed with a specific temperament, created with differing needs, hungers, dreams. This is a variegated, pluralistic world where no two stars are the same and every snowflake has its own distinctive pattern. God apparently did not want a regimented world of sameness.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Dream, Religious, Stars

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