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One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.
Irving Kristol
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The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.
Fernando Pessoa
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Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the prevailing unfreedom and the rebelling forces, thus breaking through the mystified (and petrified) social reality, and opening the horizon of change (liberation).
Herbert Marcuse
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The definition of terrorism has to be more precise, so that we are able to discriminate between, for example, what it is that the Palestinians are doing to fight the Israeli military occupation and terrorism of the sort that resulted in the World Trade Center bombing.
Edward Said
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I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Religion is the opiate of the people.
Karl Marx
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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.
Dante Alighieri
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A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
Immanuel Kant
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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
Leo Tolstoy
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Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern then may you become teachers.
Confucius
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
Socrates
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If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'.
Martin Luther
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Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you now is as rigorous in causation as that you listen to me. There is no freedom until you go beyond Maya. That is the real freedom of the soul.
Swami Vivekananda
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Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them.
Denis de Rougemont
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It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.
Tyler Burge
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I would fain keep sober always and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.
Henry David Thoreau
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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Henry David Thoreau
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We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about business, with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any business accomplished in these circumstan
Thomas Carlyle
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Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.
James Hillman
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Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.
Saint Augustine
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It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life they live badly who always begin to live.
Seneca the Younger
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