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Philosophers get paid for posing interesting questions; scientists for answering them. Thus, one cannot live without the other...
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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
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The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.
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The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
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The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.
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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise - although the philosophers generally call it ''recognition''!
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
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