Philosophy Quotes
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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
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Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.
Tertullian
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Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their s...
Plato
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end
Michel de Montaigne
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Now joblessness isn`t just for philosophy majors.
Kent Brockman
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man`s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce
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Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man`s s...
Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old
Epicurus
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I have a simple philosophy: Fill what`s empty. Empty what`s full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Longworth
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Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
Bill Lovejoy
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
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We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
Martin L. Gross
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I have a new philosophy. I`m only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy
Denis Diderot
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I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before we can change direction, we have to question many of the assumptions underlying our current philosophy. Assumptions like bigger is better; you can`t stop progress; no speed is...
Robert Bateman
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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy
Voltaire
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Philosophy is the science which considers truth
Aristotle
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I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
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One`s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis
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There`s a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you`ll make their jobs far more interesting, and they`ll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.
Bill Gates
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don`t know.
Bertrand Russell
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell
