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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

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The menu is not the meal.

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The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

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The wise trusts not only to his physical eyes - thus he can see clearly.

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I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.

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Poetry is devil's wine.

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the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.

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On all vital measures, measures necessary to protect you, the Democrats in Washington follow a simple philosophy: Just say no.

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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

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Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

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Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

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A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

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I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

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