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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

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What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

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What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

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The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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