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Famous quotes by Philosophers

"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now"
Alan Watts, Philosopher
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"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now"
Alan Watts, Philosopher
Alan Watts
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"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command"
Alan Watts, Philosopher
Alan Watts
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"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on"
Alan Watts, Philosopher
Alan Watts
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"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes"
Alan Watts, Philosopher
Alan Watts
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"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain"
Alan Watts, Philosopher
Alan Watts
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"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention"
Alan Watts, Philosopher
Alan Watts
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"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe"
Alan Watts, Philosopher
Alan Watts
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"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them"
Alan Watts, Philosopher
Alan Watts
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"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level"
Alan Watts, Philosopher
Alan Watts
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"The descent to Hades is the same from every place"
Anaxagoras, Philosopher
Anaxagoras
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"Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away"
Anaxagoras, Philosopher
Anaxagoras
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"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
Thomas Hobbes
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"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
Thomas Hobbes
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"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
Thomas Hobbes
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"It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
Thomas Hobbes
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"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
Thomas Hobbes
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"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
Thomas Hobbes
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"The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
Jean de La Bruyère
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"The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
Jean de La Bruyère
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"The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
Jean de La Bruyère
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"Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
Jean de La Bruyère
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"Love and friendship exclude each other"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
Jean de La Bruyère
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"It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
Jean de La Bruyère
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"Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
Jean de La Bruyère
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"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
Jean de La Bruyère
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"Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
Jean de La Bruyère
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"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
Jean de La Bruyère
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"A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
Jean de La Bruyère
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"A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
Jean de La Bruyère
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