A Quote by Antisthenes
The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.
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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to let my ideas of myself, of man be changed? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? To empty myself even of my concept of emptiness?
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We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.
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What kind of husband am I gonna be if I can't even hold my wife's hand?
...but I realized I may not have hands to hold my wife's hand, but when the time comes, I'll be able to hold her heart. I don't need hands to hold her heart.
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As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.
In books I converse with men, in the Bible I converse with God.
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