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    Diogenes of Sinope
    “Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.”
    ― Diogenes
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    Diogenes of Sinope
    “Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”
    ― Diogenes of Sinope
    tags: feelings, offend, offense, philosopher, philosophers, philosophy
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    Diogenes of Sinope
    “It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.”
    ― Diogenes
    tags: wisdom
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    Diogenes of Sinope
    “Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.”
    ― Diogenes of Sinope
    tags: cynicism, philosophy
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    Diogenes of Sinope
    “When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: "Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?”
    ― Diogenes
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    Diogenes Laertius
    “Why not whip the teacher when the student misbehaves?”
    ― Diogenes
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    Diogenes Laertius
    “Man is the most intelligent of animals -- and the most silly.”
    ― Diogenes
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: faith, god, prayer
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: life, reality
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I
    tags: humor
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
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    Lao Tzu
    “Simplicity, patience, compassion.
    These three are your greatest treasures.
    Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
    Patient with both friends and enemies,
    you accord with the way things are.
    Compassionate toward yourself,
    you reconcile all beings in the world.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: anna-karenina, love, tolstoy
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.”
    ― Thomas Aquinas
    tags: prayer, religion
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “The soul is like an uninhabited world
    that comes to life only when
    God lays His head
    against us.”
    ― St. Thomas Aquinas
    tags: belief, god, joy, life, spirituality
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?”
    ― Thomas Aquinas
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.”
    ― St. Thomas Aquinas
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “Love follows knowledge.”
    ― Thomas Aquinas
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”
    ― Thomas Aquinas
    tags: awe, fables, philosopher, philosophy, poet, poetry, wonder
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “Wonder is the desire of knowledge.”
    ― Thomas Aquinas
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    Immanuel Kant
    “Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
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    Immanuel Kant
    “I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”
    ― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
    tags: deny, faith, knowledge
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    Immanuel Kant
    “Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
    ― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
    tags: awe, inspirational, morality, stars
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    Immanuel Kant
    “But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.”
    ― Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
    tags: life, philosophy
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
    tags: greatness
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.”
    ― Soren A. Kierkegaard
    tags: bible, christianity, god, pride
    445 likes



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