Saint Augustine Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Heart Quotes

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

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It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

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Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity

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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

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The word of man is the most durable of all material.

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