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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

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Time irrevocably flies, towards changeless eternity.

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Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.

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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

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To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

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Art like life should be free, since both are experimental.

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence.

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My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

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The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

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What seekest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

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Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine...

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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

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The last years of life are the best, if you are a philosopher.

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The essence of nowness runs like a fire along the fuse of time.

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Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

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Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

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If pain could have cured us, we should long ago have been saved.

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Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

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Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

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The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

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