Quotes with philosophy

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  • Marquis de Sade They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Dalai Lama (14th) 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.
    Dalai Lama (14th)
    Tibetan spiritual leader (Tenzin Gyatso) (1935 - )
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  • Albert Camus Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Horace Walpole 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)
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Butch Trucks 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.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Dean William R. Inge To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Yann Martel To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
    Het leven van Pi p.46
    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz 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
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Ruth Hubbard 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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  • G.W.F. Hegel Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Bernard Williams 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.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre 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.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Norman Cousins 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.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Jordan We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg 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.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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