"Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are……" — Walter Kaufmann
"Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it."
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Walter Kaufmann
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25 Quotes by Walter Kaufmann
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When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic…
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Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the…
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Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack…
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Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to…
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Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading…
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Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.
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No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character…
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose -…
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Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate;…
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one…
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More Ceases Quotes
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Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and…
— A. S. Byatt
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.
— Les Claypool
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates…
— B R Ambedkar
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It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our…
— Corazon Aquino
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The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control…
— Josh Jones
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When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions…
— Francois Fenelon
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When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word…
— Smith Wigglesworth
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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