Plato Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Process Quotes

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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

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For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

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Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

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Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?

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