Anton Chekhov Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

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Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

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To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.

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You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

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Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'

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The only way round is through.

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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

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Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

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Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

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You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment. (O soul) be conscious that your Master is more aware about your well-being than you are.

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Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

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We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

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