To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open … - Rene Descartes

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It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.

Rene Descartes

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

Attempting, Eye, Eyes, Keeping, Open

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We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

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The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Authors, Book, Carefully, Nay, Past, Reading

De omnibus dubitandum

Dubitandum, Omnibus, Philosophical

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Attitude, High, Inspirational, Raise, Spiritual, Whenever

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Rick Yancey

It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.

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Julia Cameron

"God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

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Donald A. Norman

I think a successful company is one where everybody owns the same mission. Out of necessity, we divide ourselves up into discipline groups. But the goal when you are actually doing the work is to somehow forget what discipline group you are in and come together. So in that sense, nobody should own user experience; everybody should own it.

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George Packer

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

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Rajneesh

Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.

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