Lord Byron Quotes, Life Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

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If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

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Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.

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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

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Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.

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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

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The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.

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It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.

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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

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Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

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The lie is a condition of life.

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I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.

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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

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Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

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You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

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