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I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.

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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.

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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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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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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.

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Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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