Philosophy Quotes
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The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently, however they have writ the style of gods, and made a pish at chance and sufferance.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather a retreat from the world as it is man's, into the world as it is God's.
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
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To philosophize in a just sense, is but to carry good breeding a step higher. For the accomplishment of breeding is, to learn what is decent in company or beautiful in arts; and the sum of philosophy is to learn what is just in society, and beautiful in nature and the order of the world.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die.
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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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True philosophy is that which makes us to ourselves and to all about us, better; and at the same time, more content, patient, calm, and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
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When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.
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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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