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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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Who is it that can tell me who I am?

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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

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A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.

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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

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People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics, I think, are more indicative of problems with some things going on at the frontier of physics than ideas that are gonna last.

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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

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Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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