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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

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Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is - in a distinctive way - a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price's philosophy is one of extraordinary confiden...more

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It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can be just as powerfully sapped by an i...more

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The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

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I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the very loose sense of...more

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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

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The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

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The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevatin...more

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We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling th...more

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Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea th...more

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He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shut...more

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If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in ...more

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Humboldt's early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accomplished in a Lifetime. He summarised the areas of his...more

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What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in sound, language or image...more

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Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and deviations from the type, lest they be perpetuated or e...more