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Yet I loathe the thought of annihilating myself quite as much now as I ever did. I think with sadnes...

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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poe...

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And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor ...

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Will DurantThe Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all...

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William Barrett (philosopher)The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected...

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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosoph...

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You cannot open a book without learning something.

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

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David HumeAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the ...

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Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punis...

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The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience...

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Erich FrommMan for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics

Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering...

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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philo...

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The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who k...

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A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian i...

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Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion o...

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H. L. MenckenThe Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.

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Nicolás Gómez DávilaEscolios a un texto implicito: Seleccion

To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,Whenever you're wrong, admit it;Whenever ...

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It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profit...

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