Best Quotes About Philosophy (Top 100)
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Be yourself, because others are already taken.
Oscar Wilde
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Plato
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
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Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something
Plato
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel
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Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Douglas Adams
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Socrates
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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
William Shakespeare
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Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
George Carlin
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Aristotle
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
Aristotle
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
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If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
Adolf Hitler
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
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Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.
Norton Juster
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Socrates
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell
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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
Judy Blume
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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.
Charles M. Schulz
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle
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Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato
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I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Ayn Rand
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There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell
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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
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Life is too short to learn German
Oscar Wilde
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The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
Norton Juster
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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
William Faulkner
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I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.
Harlan Ellison
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
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Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
Aristotle
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
Albert Camus
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Ayn Rand
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The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
G K Chesterton
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
David Hume
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
Margaret Atwood
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire
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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
William S. Burroughs
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
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To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation...Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Hell is truth seen too late.
Thomas Hobbes
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
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When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
Philip Pullman
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
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The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.
Bill Hicks
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates
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There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
Charles M. Schulz
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran
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A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
Richard K. Morgan
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I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.
Eduardo Galeano
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Woody Allen
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
Ayn Rand
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked"as I am surprisingly often"why I bother to get up in the mornings.
Richard Dawkins
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I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Henry Ford
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Ayn Rand
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
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Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
David Hume
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You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
Robin Williams
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My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.
Bill Belichick
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Democritus
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It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.
Dejan Stojanovic
Even More Philosophy Quotes
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I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine
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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
Anthony Hopkins
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A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.
Frank Zappa
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
John Ruskin
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
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the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.
Bob Marley
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Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.
Henri Bergson
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
Isaac Asimov
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison
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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Stephen Hawking
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Isaac Asimov
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The map is not the territory.
Alfred Korzybski
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Lose your mind and come to your senses.
Frederick Salomon Perls
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.
Albert Einstein
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
John Fowles
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A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
Louis Pasteur
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan Poe
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We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle
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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
David Hume
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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Ken Kesey
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
Denis Diderot
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I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
Steven Wright
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The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.
Leon Trotsky
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand
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I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.
Dejan Stojanovic
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Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
Giacomo Leopardi
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
Bertrand Russell
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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
Eric Clapton
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.
Isaac Newton
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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Robin Williams
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Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.
Louis Althusser
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Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Noel Coward
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Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Albert Pike
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
Friedrich Engels
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Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
Gary Snyder
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There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
Jonathan Swift
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
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India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
Will Durant
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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire
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This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
John Muir
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Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.
Tom Robbins
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The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
Ayn Rand
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
Voltaire
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I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
Clarence Thomas
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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
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By daily dying, I have come to be.
Theodore Roethke
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Albert Camus
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In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram âimpersonal and unattainableâthe Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.
Evelyn Underhill
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Ambrose Bierce
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
Annie Besant
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Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.
Denis Waitley
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann
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In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
Epicurus
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Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
Nikolai Berdyaev
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
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Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato
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I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
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It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
Rose Macaulay
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The first duty of a man is to think for himself
Jose Marti
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In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.
Louis Althusser
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Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
Philip Wylie
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We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
Boyd K. Packer
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Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
Rudolf Carnap
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Francis Bacon
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Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
Henry Adams
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When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.
Henry Hazlitt
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Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
Grantland Rice
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You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
Maxim Gorky
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In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true, it is spiritually unsafe to attend public schools. Look back over the history of education to the turn of the century and the beginning of the educational philosophies, pragmatism and humanism were the early ones, and they branched out into a number of other philosophies which have led us now into a circumstance where our schools are producing the problems that we face.
Boyd K. Packer
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My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
Sonny Perdue
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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Ayn Rand
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Ayn Rand
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Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
Alfred Marshall
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
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Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Dag Hammarskjold
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No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.
Helen Rowland
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Every solution breeds new problems.
Arthur Bloch
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God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.
Kedar Joshi
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Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
Jimmy Swaggart
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot
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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
Daniel Boone
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When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
Frantz Fanon
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Allan Bloom
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The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
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There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." —Luke Skywalker
Aaron Allston
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach
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I have a 'Play The Melody' philosophy. It means don't over arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody-and do it the simplest way possible.
Jackie Gleason
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
Henry George
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes " I mean the universe " but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written
Galileo Galilei
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Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
Albert Pike
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Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts
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We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athensâlike science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say?
David Graeber
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
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My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.
Jenny McCarthy
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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
John Fowles
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To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
Ludwig Feuerbach
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Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!
Jimmy Swaggart
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If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face of the earth, and man's inhumanity to man would be transmuted into a spirit of mutual helpfulness.
Ernest Holmes
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All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.
Konrad Adenauer
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Love is love's reward.
John Dryden
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Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.
John Fogerty
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I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.
Jimmy Cliff
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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Albert Camus
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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
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It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
Brooks Robinson
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Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?
John Constable
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There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
Daniel Bernoulli
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Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
Claude Debussy
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If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
Edward Hodnett
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Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.
Aristippus
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates
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When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.
David Cronenberg
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I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
Francoise Sagan
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One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.
Louis Althusser
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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Paul Tillich
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
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The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.
Dejan Stojanovic
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Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.
Olaf Stapledon
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
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It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.
Dejan Stojanovic
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.
Andre Gide
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I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.
Ludwig Feuerbach
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There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
Paul Ricoeur
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The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
Chauncey Wright
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde
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We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.
Dejan Stojanovic
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I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since
Boyd Rice
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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
John Keats
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I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
Carol Leifer
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Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself compromised and caught up in the outside world.
Louis Althusser
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Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.
Dejan Stojanovic
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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.
James Redfield
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
Denis Diderot
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A truce to philosophy!"Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it - as with these - life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
Henry Steele Commager
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Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
John Webster
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It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and methods. I believe in the beauties of philosophy and poetry. I believe that the work we do and leave behind us is our afterlife; and I believe that history lies, but sometimes so well that I can't bring myself to resent it. I believe that truth is beauty, but not, I'm afraid, the reverse. It doesn't seem sufficient to sustain one in life's rigorous moments. Perhaps I shall embrace Islam. Its standards for poetry seem very high.
Emma Bull
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In the lie of truth lies the truth.
Dejan Stojanovic
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What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
Jeannette Rankin
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Aristotle
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
Epicurus
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Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.
Bob Ehrlich
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On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.
Len Deighton
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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
Anna Jameson
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Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.
H. Richard Niebuhr
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Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
Eric Gill
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But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.
Kathleen Norris
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Will Durant
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It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.
Aristotle
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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Havelock Ellis
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Anderson
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A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Gersonides
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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul Gauguin
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Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.
Bertrand Russell
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Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Eugene Delacroix
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Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
Karl Marx
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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine
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The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.
Hippolyte Taine
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I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.
Judith Anderson
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Enough is as good as a feast.
Thomas Malory
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Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.
Bob Ehrlich
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
Alice James
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Edmond de Goncourt
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My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
Louisa May Alcott
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I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy— of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.
Frank Wilczek
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
Thucydides
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon
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You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past.
John Logan
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My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
Hank Stram
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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Khalil Gibran
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It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William James
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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns
John Milton
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Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
George Carlin
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These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.
Benjamin Britten
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle
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I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.
Chad Michael Murray
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle
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The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
Bryan Magee
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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
Havelock Ellis
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
Socrates
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To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective
David Guterson
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Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert Ryle
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Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
John Churton Collins
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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
Bryan Magee
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus
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What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
Elie Wiesel
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Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from physical violence to the peaceful accumulation of wealth and status. The rights to life, liberty, and property are cultural inventions that function, in part, to keep males from killing and stealing from one another while they compete to attract sexual partners.
Geoffrey Miller
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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
William Allen White
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Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.
Antonio Tabucchi
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I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
Albert Einstein
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton
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So what I am always looking for is, I'm always looking for something that that person has told me that nobody else has told me. It is normally not an opinion, and it is normally not a philosophy. It's almost always a story. Because we all share similar philosophies, we all share similar opinions on a lot of different issues, but all of our stories are our own.
Brandon Stanton
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Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
Karl Marx
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Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.
Luigi Pirandello
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard Shaw
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The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
Socrates
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We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
Martin L. Gross
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."
Soren Kierkegaard
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I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.
Nelson Goodman
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Wallace Stevens
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People generally quarrel because they can't argue.
G K Chesterton
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How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.
Dejan Stojanovic
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One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
Dennis Prager
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Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy
Tertullian
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Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
Morris Raphael Cohen
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Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
Henry Ford
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Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale.
Keith Ward
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Charles Darwin
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This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
John Selden
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Music fathoms the sky.
Charles Baudelaire
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Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
Edgar Quinet
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I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.
Olaf Stapledon
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Angela Davis
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Aristotle
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Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum. (I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am
Rene Descartes
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Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
James Anthony Froude
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis
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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
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He is the richest who is content with the least.
Socrates
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PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
Ambrose Bierce
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The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle
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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.''
C.S. Lewis
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Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.
Sigmund Freud
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A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Winston Churchill
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If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
George Washington Carver
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
Augustine Birrell
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History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
Augustine Birrell
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A star needs a star.
Dejan Stojanovic
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein
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The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.
Kedar Joshi
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One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes
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I think; therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
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One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Frank Zappa
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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John Keats
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I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
Lin Yutang
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Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery — the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets — is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.
Alan Watts
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Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.
Dejan Stojanovic
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Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.
Dorothea Brande
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb
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All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest Dimnet
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
Edward Abbey
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.
Charlie Brown
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
Socrates
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The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
William Feather
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Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
Dale Carnegie
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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert Einstein
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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle
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Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
Aristotle
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It is easy to build a philosophy—it doesn't have to run.
Charles F. Kettering
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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Aristotle
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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
Aristotle
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A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.
Dejan Stojanovic
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After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?
Dejan Stojanovic
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Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
Aristotle
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Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.
Dejan Stojanovic
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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Aristotle
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I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.
Dejan Stojanovic
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Teaching others, he corrected himself.
Dejan Stojanovic
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To understand possible means to understand impossible.
Dejan Stojanovic
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
Aristotle
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When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
Dejan Stojanovic
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Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.
Dejan Stojanovic
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When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.
Dejan Stojanovic
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…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called âcritical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term âphilosopher’.
Alfred Korzybski
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The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.
Ernest Bramah
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G K Chesterton
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G K Chesterton
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
Voltaire
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According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
Moliere
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Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.
Karl Marx
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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
Voltaire
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Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
Michel de Montaigne
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel Butler
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Arthur Schopenhauer