Carl Sagan Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Perspective Quotes

There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

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I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.

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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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And right action is freedom From past and future also.

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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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Nature abhors annihilation.

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