Quotes 161 till 180 of 203.
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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
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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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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776) -
To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Het leven van Pi p.46 -
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 3, Paragraph 3 -
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
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Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.
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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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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
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We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.
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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
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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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We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.
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