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We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine,
But search of deep philosophy,
Wit, eloquence, and poetry;
Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine.On the Death of Mr. William Harvey; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). -
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.
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What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.
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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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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.
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Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.
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While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
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Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
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Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
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You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy
But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!The Threepenny Opera Macheath in Second Threepenny-Finale; Act 2, scene -
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
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Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
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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.
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
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Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
The Devil's Dictionary
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