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Philosophy Quotes

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

"Man is an amphibious creature – a being who cannot live in the water and cannot live out of it "

"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you"

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes"

"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life."

"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them "

"We are all obliged, sooner or later, to join the great majority."

"Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed"

"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater"

"The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say 'I read, therefore it writes'"

"Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable"

"We do not come into this world; we come out"

"The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear"

"Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep down basic whatever there is. And you're all that... only you're pretending you're not."

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