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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

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And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

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Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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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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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

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It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

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With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

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