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A confession has to be part of your new life.

Confessions

4.1 · 44 votes · 107 reads

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A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Words

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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Philosophy

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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Death

4.3 · 24 votes · 137 reads

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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Problems

3.1 · 45 votes · 123 reads

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Society
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
4.3 · 17 votes · 25 reads
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Nature
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
3.4 · 26 votes · 97 reads
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Feelings
If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
3.1 · 7 votes · 145 reads
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Society
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powe
4.2 · 63 votes · 4 reads
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Thought and Reason
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
3.0 · 28 votes · 91 reads
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Virtues
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''
5.0 · 49 votes · 178 reads
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Virtues
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
3.7 · 40 votes · 168 reads
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Various
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
4.5 · 10 votes · 85 reads
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Virtues
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
3.1 · 18 votes · 142 reads
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Society
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
5.0 · 21 votes · 103 reads
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Thought and Reason
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
3.8 · 8 votes · 37 reads
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Defects
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
4.1 · 58 votes · 104 reads
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Thought and Reason
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
4.4 · 64 votes · 141 reads
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Thought and Reason
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
5.0 · 33 votes · 49 reads
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Thought and Reason
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
4.6 · 44 votes · 11 reads
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Nature
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
4.5 · 26 votes · 113 reads
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Thought and Reason
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. - The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
4.2 · 36 votes · 162 reads
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Thought and Reason
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
3.1 · 31 votes · 148 reads
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Thought and Reason
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
3.7 · 63 votes · 132 reads
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Thought and Reason
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
4.3 · 31 votes · 175 reads
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Defects
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
3.9 · 28 votes · 45 reads
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