George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Hero Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

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Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

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This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

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Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile

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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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