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"Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

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"Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy."

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"Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

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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."

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"I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time."

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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."

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"All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain."

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"What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows."

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"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy."

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"All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy."

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"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."

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"I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine."

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"Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there."

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"Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in"

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"Leisure is the mother of philosophy."

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"Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy."

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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."

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"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."

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"History is philosophy teaching by examples."

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"Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that's only one man's opinion."

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"We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs."

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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."

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"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility."

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"Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind."

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"I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches."

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"If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite."

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"The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them."

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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."

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"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."

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"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."

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"Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the diciplines or continue the errors."

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"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy."

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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 in the best place for the next moment."

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"In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try."

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"True philosophy invents nothing it merely establishes and describes what is."

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"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker."

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"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."

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"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."

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"Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy."

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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."

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"University President Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers."

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"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

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"I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."

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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."

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"Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

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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."

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"There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers."

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"'I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs."

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"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

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"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous."

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"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order."

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"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion."

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