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Tag Name "Philosophy" (2983)

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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist) and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
A. E. Housman
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Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.
Eugen Richter
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There might be a lot of physical chemistry within a couple, but without the compatibility of life philosophy and interests then the relationship will likely not be long-lasting.
John Friend
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Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.
Ambrose Bierce
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I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
Frederic Chopin
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Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
Thomas Carlyle
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The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
John Donne
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo
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My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.
David Maraniss
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All is mystery but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.
Julien Benda
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The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.
Kedar Joshi
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A prison becomes a home when you have the key.
George Sterling
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They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!
Rafael Sabatini
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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Paul Tillich
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Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which case it is dangerous.
Georges Canguilhem
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When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.
Jostein Gaarder
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Sex can never bring about enlightenment. Only enlightenment brings about enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
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Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.
Jack Nicklaus
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... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.
Josef Pieper
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It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's important to remember they weren't always separate realms of inquiry.
Brad Warner
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Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.
Henry David Thoreau
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