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Philosophy Quotes

"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity"

"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity"

"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."

"The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost"

"Time is not a thing thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time."

"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation"

"Life is without meaning. We bring meaning to it"

"Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize, just as I did, that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path"

"We can only have a coherent conception of reality—our conscious experience of it, that is—if we pay attention to its contents one by one, moment by moment"

"Each one of us is a unique event in the universe."

"All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas."

"You want to be a philosopher, not a cheap sage"

"Either you repeat conventional doctrines without thought, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune."

"Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve"

"A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily."

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