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Philosophy Quotes

"You have power over your mind — not outside events"

"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world"

"The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die"

"Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities."

"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."

"The madman is a dreamer awake."

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind"

"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life"

"The monads are the true atoms of nature."

"Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever."

"The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it."

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion"

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."

"The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt "

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