Philosophical Quotes - Page 15

• It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Able, Violence

  "Personal quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Bravery, Trying

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.66, Penguin

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• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Happy, Men

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• He who has great power should use it lightly.

  Seneca the Younger

  Leadership, Vision, Use

  "Troades". Line 336, 1st century.

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• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty

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• Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Knowledge, Men, Catholic

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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• Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who is neither a she nor an it supposedly answers prayers and otherwise dramatically affects the outcome of events. If these consequences are as significant as believers say, then the effects should be detectable in properly controlled experiments.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Prayer, Religion, Atheism

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.

  Rajneesh

  Teacher, Heart, Just Listen

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• Sweet are the uses of adversity

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Sports, Sweet

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

  Baruch Spinoza

  Passion, Emotion, Ifs

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• The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Fall, Wings, Owl

  Philosophy of Right (1821)

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• But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

  Robert Burns

  Art, Pain, Grief

  Robert Burns (2009). “The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns”, p.48, Princeton University Press

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• Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know

  Jann Arden

  Writing, Doors, Light

  Song: Could I Be Your Girl?, Album: Living Under June, 1994

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• It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

  Lewis Carroll

  Mistake, Genius, Path

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• We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

  Jean Toomer

  Philosophy, Existence, Humans

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• 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare, Gwynne Blakemore Evans, Anthony Hecht (1996). “The Sonnets”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

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• Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Seeking

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.154

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• I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

  Saint Augustine

  Reason, Weak

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• Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all

  Michelle Shocked

  Circles, Ran

  Song: Memories of East Texas

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• In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either explode into space, and engulf the star-clouds in a fire storm of children, trees, and butterfly wings; or Life will fail, fizzle, and gutter out, leaving the universe shrouded forever in impenetrable blankness, devoid of hope.

  Marshall Savage

  Stars, Children, Butterfly

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• Like any dealer he was watching for the card
  that is so high and wild
  he'll never need to deal another.
  He was just some Joseph looking for a manger.

  Leonard Cohen

  Needs, Cards, Deals

  "Song: 'The Stranger Song'". 1967.

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• Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same

  Paul Simon

  Strange

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