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Philosophy Quotes
"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."
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"Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation."
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"It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes."
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"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'."
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"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy."
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"Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature."
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"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve."
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"It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true."
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"No clergyman however brilliant, no evangelist no matter how eloquent or compelling, can bring about the revival we need. Only the Holy Spirit can do this."
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"Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it."
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"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself."
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"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment."
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"All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night."
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"We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs."
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"Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary. How much pain and unhappy consequences could be avoided if we all learned the meaning of this word!"
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"There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means."
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"Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism."
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"What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection."
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"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."
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"If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy."
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"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."
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"In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism."
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"When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics."
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"What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is."
"I wish nights like this weren't so fragile and slippery and impossible to nail down for study in one's leisure. But the really great nights pass through you like whispers or shadows. They shimmer, but don't adhere."
"All false religions cut away parts of God's revelation, add ideas of their own, and come out with various viewpoints that differ from God's revelation in the Bible."
"Many Christians who profess Christ do not live as though they possess Him."
"A true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed."
"Your truth is what you can make your own mind believe. Be careful! Believe only that which is your truth and not that which has been said to you."
"In heaven . . . the “communication gap” will be closed."
"The Bible is clear that the Holy Spirit is God Himself."
"Don't be deceived by Satan and his lies. Instead, stay close to Christ-because the closer you are to Him, the farther away you are from the devil."
"Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics."
"[God] created us free to choose how we would live . . . but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences."
"We have seen the results of unrestrained greed, corruption, and manipulation on Wall Street, financial mismanagement in the halls of government, fraud and perversion at the highest levels of both church and state. Many people sense the possibility of an even greater unraveling in the world. We are constantly confronted by the realities of new problems in this age of crisis."
"You are not in the universe, the universe is hiding inside you and always looking out for you."
"Loneliness is no respecter of persons. It invades the palace as well as the hut."
"As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God's definition of marriage, between a man and a woman."
"Man has naturally and universally a capacity for religion-and not only a capacity, for the vast majority of the human race practices or professes some form of religion."
"Parents, pray that God may crown your home with grace and mercy."
"Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived-none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left."
"We have been told by God that if we sin against Him and break His commandments, He will bring judgment upon the world. It is my responsibility and my duty as a minister of the Gospel to [warn] people. This is the message I must deliver."
"I believe that this world, as we know it, will come to an end . . . This is not fanciful imagination but the clear and repeated testimony of the Bible."
"It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it."
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
"My visits to Hungary over the past twelve years absolutely fixed my conviction that God's Holy Spirit was releasing a spiritual force in that part of the world that was bound to challenge the atheistic philosophy that had dominated nations in that region for decades."
"If young people could only realize that a happy marriage depends not only on the present, but upon the past, they would be more reluctant to enter into loose, intimate relations with anyone and everyone."
"I have heard the hollow, shallow laughter of the world. I have heard the genuine laughter of the beaming young Christian. I know there is a difference."
"Men and women do make decisions wherever the Gospel is proclaimed; whether publicly or privately, some say yes, some say no, and some procrastinate. No one ever hears the Gospel proclaimed without making some kind of decision!"
"You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is."
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