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• Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.

  Dietrich von Hildebrand

  Love, Beauty, Hope

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• Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

  Gorgias

  Communication, Knowledge, Words Of Wisdom

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• Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed. Let there be no other differences between human beings than those of age and sex. Since all have the same needs and the same faculties, let there be one education for all, one food for all.

  Francois-Noel Babeuf

  Education, Sex, Food

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• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

  Plato

  Life, Death, Wisdom

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• The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Truth, Lying, Liars

  "Donald Rumsfeld Hasn't Learned a Damn Thing" by James G. Blight and Janet M. Lang, www.politico.com. April 04, 2014.

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• Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.

  Koichi Tohei

  Art, Hands, Water

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• Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the result is that there is no time left? We are a time-poor society; we are temporally impoverished. And there is no issue, no aspect of human life, that exceeds this in importance. The destruction of time is literally the destruction of life.

  Jacob Needleman

  Life, Time, Technology

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• Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations.

  Allan Boesak

  Fall, Biblical, Simple

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Knowledge, Mean, Doe

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.87, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Sake, Feds

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• The map is not the territory.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Philosophical, Journey, Discovery

  Science and Sanity (1933).

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• By daily dying, I have come to be.

  Theodore Roethke

  Philosophical, Dying

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• Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Being Yourself, Inspiration, Choices Made

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

  John Burroughs

  Philosophical, Battle, Literature

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• To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Believe, Philosophical, Way

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• When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

  Denis Diderot

  Art, Men, Years

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• The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Roots, Hunger

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.568, The Floating Press

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• History should be written as philosophy.

  Voltaire

  History, Should, Written

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• People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, People, Imagination

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 417, 2006.

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• We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fall, Men, Errors

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• Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

  Aldous Huxley

  History, Firsts, Desolation

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• The first duty of a man is to think for himself

  Jose Marti

  Life, Hope, Men

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• I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Enchanted, Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Important

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.29, Atlântico Press

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• When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Teacher, Writing

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• It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Music, Being Alone

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