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> [Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/each-of-the-parts-of-philosophy-is-a-philosophical-whole-a-circle/)

[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/)

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> [“I could never bring myself to read through contracts or arrangements destined for my scrutiny and subject to my care. In truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-zweig/i-could-never-bring-myself-to-read-through-contracts-or-arrangements/)

[Stefan Zweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-zweig/)

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> [“Let me tell you a secret about the human condition. Nihilism leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to nihilism. It is never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhaidev/let-me-tell-you-a-secret-about-the-human-condition-nihilism-leads-to/)

[Abhaidev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abhaidev/)

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> [Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-golding/consider-a-man-riding-a-bicycle-whoever-he-is-we-can-say-three-things/)

[William Golding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-golding/)

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> [You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-f-r-ellis/you-can-only-exclude-it-on-philosophical-grounds-in-my-view-there-is/)

[George F. R. Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-f-r-ellis/)

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> [I don't know that we teach it. I don't know that we emphasize it... I understand the philosophical background behind it, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-b-hinckley/i-don-t-know-that-we-teach-it-i-don-t-know-that-we-emphasize-it-i/)

[Gordon B. Hinckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-b-hinckley/)

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> [Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-caleb-colton/dreams-ought-to-produce-no-conviction-whatever-on-philosophical-minds/)

[Charles Caleb Colton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-caleb-colton/)

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> [I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thomson/i-know-no-subject-more-elevating-more-amazing-more-ready-to-the/)

[James Thomson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thomson/)

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> [Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-von-mises/inflationism-however-is-not-an-isolated-phenomenon-it-is-only-one/)

[Ludwig von Mises](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-von-mises/)

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> [It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-searle/it-seems-to-me-obvious-that-infants-and-many-animals-that-do-not-in/)

[John Searle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-searle/)

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> [It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/it-is-one-thing-to-say-that-science-is-only-equipped-to-test-for/)

[Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/)

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> [It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/it-was-like-wondering-how-evil-had-come-into-the-world-or-what/)

[Joe Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-hill/)

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> [No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-feynman/no-government-has-the-right-to-decide-on-the-truth-of-scientific/)

[Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-feynman/)

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> [“We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/we-look-not-at-the-things-which-are-what-you-would-call-seen-but-at/)

[Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/)

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> [One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-kitcher/one-of-the-things-i-want-to-do-in-the-book-is-to-explore-how/)

[Philip Kitcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-kitcher/)

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> [There aren't sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-pruitt/there-aren-t-sufficient-scientific-facts-to-establish-the-theory-of/)

[Scott Pruitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-pruitt/)

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> [You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/you-have-to-put-aside-your-ideology-howsoever-beautiful-it-looks/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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> [But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bentley-hart/but-in-fact-materialism-is-among-the-most-problematic-of/)

[David Bentley Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bentley-hart/)

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> [The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/the-great-trick-of-regarding-small-departures-from-the-truth-as-the/)

[Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/)

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> [“I was pondering the reason why we are all here in this life, and what did it all mean. It seemed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrice-james/i-was-pondering-the-reason-why-we-are-all-here-in-this-life-and-what/)

[Beatrice James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrice-james/)

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> [Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/thousands-of-years-of-ideological-philosophical-and-practical/)

[Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/)

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> [Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-kitcher/mann-was-profoundly-influenced-by-two-philosophers-schopenhauer-and/)

[Philip Kitcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-kitcher/)

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> [ More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional \[religious\] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/more-and-more-people-are-becoming-unable-to-accept-traditional/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [“So, when I write a piece of fiction I select my characters and settings and so on because they have a bearing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gardner/so-when-i-write-a-piece-of-fiction-i-select-my-characters-and/)

[John Gardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gardner/)

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> [The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-schrodinger/the-unphilosophical-and-philosophical-attitudes-can-be-very-sharply/)

[Erwin Schrodinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erwin-schrodinger/)

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> [Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chauncey-wright/science-asks-no-questions-about-the-ontological-pedigree-or-a-priori/)

[Chauncey Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chauncey-wright/)

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> [So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-goldstein/so-socrates-was-a-kind-of-gadfly-he-was-a-sort-of-philosophical-urban/)

[Rebecca Goldstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-goldstein/)

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> [“Fredkin was quoted by Robert Wright in the 1980s as saying, There are three great philosophical questions. What is life? What is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-kurzweil/fredkin-was-quoted-by-robert-wright-in-the-1980s-as-saying-there-are/)

[Ray Kurzweil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-kurzweil/)

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> [Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freeman-dyson/science-is-a-human-activity-and-the-best-way-to-understand-it-is-to/)

[Freeman Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freeman-dyson/)

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> [I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mariella-frostrup/i-know-we-should-aspire-to-be-higher-philosophical-beings/)

[Mariella Frostrup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mariella-frostrup/)

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> [“One of the protestor's sign catches my eye. HOMISEXUALITY IS THE DEVIL'S WORK, it says. And once again I think about how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-levithan/one-of-the-protestor-s-sign-catches-my-eye-homisexuality-is-the-devil/)

[David Levithan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-levithan/)

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> [Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-acton/judge-not-according-to-the-orthodox-standard-of-a-system-religious/)

[Lord Acton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-acton/)

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> [Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-burnside/andy-brown-is-one-of-our-most-interesting-and-exciting-younger-poets/)

[John Burnside](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-burnside/)

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> [The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-jay-gould/the-spirit-of-plato-dies-hard-we-have-been-unable-to-escape-the/)

[Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-jay-gould/)

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> [“The Delores tank rolled on inexorably, “You get a mortgage to buy a house, a larger mortgage than the previous owner because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arun-d-ellis/the-delores-tank-rolled-on-inexorably-you-get-a-mortgage-to-buy-a/)

[Arun D. Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arun-d-ellis/)

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> [ Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard \[Nimoy\] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shatner/within-weeks-of-our-premiere-it-became-obvious-that-leonard-nimoy-and/)

[William Shatner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shatner/)

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> [America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/america-s-belated-embrace-of-government-health-care-is-going-to-be/)

[Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/)

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> [I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/i-don-t-like-purely-philosophical-works-i-think-a-little-philosophy/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

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> [I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-connick-jr/i-m-a-natural-piano-player-so-all-the-practicing-i-do-at-this-point/)

[Harry Connick, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-connick-jr/)

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> [“The greatest thinkers have attempted to find who we are where we come from and why we are here but the greatest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kamand-kojouri/the-greatest-thinkers-have-attempted-to-find-who-we-are-where-we-come/)

[Kamand Kojouri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kamand-kojouri/)

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                        "text": "Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation.",
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                        "text": "“I could never bring myself to read through contracts or arrangements destined for my scrutiny and subject to my care. In truth this was not so much a philosophical mistrust for the worldly, the mundane and transitory—no, rather it was unpardonable infantile idleness and gross negligence. I would rather do anything than read through a contract.”",
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                        "text": "“Let me tell you a secret about the human condition. Nihilism leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to nihilism. It is never in between for long. It is always a see-saw in action. Yes, my dear child, one can’t remain mystical all the time, for hopelessness creeps into even the most positive of minds. But this hopelessness, this cynicism too is not permanent. Man, you see, swings between nihilism and spirituality. Man, you see, swings between utmost bliss and the feelings of utter despair. It’s a rollercoaster, our lives. One can’t just go higher, higher all the time.”",
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                        "text": "Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.",
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                        "text": "You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that.",
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                        "text": "I don't know that we teach it. I don't know that we emphasize it... I understand the philosophical background behind it, but I don't know a lot about it, and I don't think others know a lot about it.",
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                        "text": "Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.",
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                        "text": "I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?",
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                        "text": "Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of our time. Just as the sound money policy of gold standard advocates went hand in hand with liberalism, free trade, capitalism and peace, so is inflationism part and parcel of imperialism, militarism, protectionism, statism and socialism.",
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                        "text": "It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts nonetheless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.",
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                        "text": "No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.",
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                        "text": "“We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.”",
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                        "text": "One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I start doing that in the first chapter, by introducing the idea of \"philosophy by showing\". What literature/philosophy shows is how to look at some important facets of life in a new way, thus changing the frame in which subsequent philosophical argument proceeds.",
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