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A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

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PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

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Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

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If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

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Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

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Philosophy begins in wonder.

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To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

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The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

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For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

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To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy.

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The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.

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I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

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No one should waste a day.

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Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

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