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Art is far feebler than necessity.

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Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

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I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

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Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.

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I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

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the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.

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She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

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As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

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A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

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