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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

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Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

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Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.

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Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

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He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

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Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.

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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

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In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

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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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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

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Discontent is the seed of ethics.

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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

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The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

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Philosophy can make people sick.

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To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.

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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

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Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

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