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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

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The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

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How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

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I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

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The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

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We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

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Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

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... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

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You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

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Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. ( Recherches de la vérité , Livre VI, seconde partie, chap. 3.) And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.

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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

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For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

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