Philosophical Quotes — Page 34

Writer, Scholar

“You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

Jesus Teacher Easter

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Edward Said

Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author

“The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into Western learning, Western consciousness, and later, Western empire.... The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage will appear the figures whose role it is to represent the larger whole from which they emenate. The Orient then seems to be, not an unlimited extension beyond the familiar European world, but rather a closed field, a theatrical stage affixed to Europe.”

World Europe Orientalism

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Marilyn Monroe

Actress, Model

“The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.”

Thinking Life

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Rene Descartes

Philosopher, Mathematician

“How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?”

Dream Life Is

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David Hume

Philosopher, Historian

“There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.”

Choices Refuse Freedom Of Choice

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosopher

“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”

Success Creativity Independent

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Claude Monet

Painter

“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.”

Life Stars Change

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U.G. Krishnamurti

Philosopher

“The body is a fortuitous concourse of atoms. There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms. Their changing places and taking different forms is what we call 'death.' It's a process which restores the energy level in nature that has gone down. In reality, nothing is born and nothing is dead.”

Reality Different Energy

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Sri Aurobindo

Philosopher, Poet, Politician

“Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb to a divine supermanhood. The step from man towards superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth's evolution. There lies our destiny and the liberating key to our aspiring, but troubled and limited human existence — inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process.”

Men Earth Finals

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Mahatma Gandhi

Political Leader

“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.”

Inspirational Motivational Peace

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