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> [In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-adamson/in-fact-one-of-the-things-about-plotinus-is-that-he-maybe-not/)

[Peter Adamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-adamson/)

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> [Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/two-chinamen-visiting-europe-went-to-the-theatre-for-the-first-time/)

[Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/)

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> [When I look in the mirror, I see the ageing process at full pelt, the hairline in retreat, the bags under the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-webb/when-i-look-in-the-mirror-i-see-the-ageing-process-at-full-pelt-the/)

[Robert Webb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-webb/)

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> [There was a big difference between Ron Paul and me when it came to the 'no.' His 'no' was philosophical. It was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-johnson/there-was-a-big-difference-between-ron-paul-and-me-when-it-came-to/)

[Gary Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-johnson/)

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> [In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-hertz/in-my-work-i-now-have-the-comfortable-feeling-that-i-am-so-to-speak/)

[Heinrich Hertz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-hertz/)

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> [Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-brooks/each-of-the-essays-in-this-volume-ranges-widely-across-technical-and/)

[Rodney Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rodney-brooks/)

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> [Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-joseph-gall/whoever-would-not-remain-in-complete-ignorance-of-the-resources-which/)

Franz Joseph Gall

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> [Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-hook/russell-s-prose-has-been-compared-by-t-s-eliot-to-that-of-david-hume/)

[Sidney Hook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-hook/)

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> [I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/i-found-that-of-the-senses-the-eye-is-the-most-superficial-the-ear/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

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> [It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/it-is-possible-indeed-possible-even-according-to-the-old-conception/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lana-del-rey/when-i-was-very-young-i-was-sort-of-floored-by-the-fact-that-my/)

[Lana Del Rey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lana-del-rey/)

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> [“Spirit does not belong to any particular religion because It has nothing to do with any religion and humanity cannot claim any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-vazhakunnathu/spirit-does-not-belong-to-any-particular-religion-because-it-has/)

[Thomas Vazhakunnathu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-vazhakunnathu/)

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> [“For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-s-kamali/for-wicked-people-to-do-evil-requires-money-and-good-people/)

Sean S Kamali

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> [A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-durant/a-history-of-civilization-shares-the-presumptuousness-of-every/)

[Will Durant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-durant/)

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> [I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-kitcher/i-have-enormous-respect-for-derek-parfit-although-he-seems-to-me/)

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

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> [“My mother delayed my enrollment in the Fascist scouts, the Balilla , as long as possible, firstly because she did not want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/italo-calvino/my-mother-delayed-my-enrollment-in-the-fascist-scouts-the-balilla-as/)

[Italo Calvino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/italo-calvino/)

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> [“All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/all-our-lives-we-postpone-everything-that-can-be-postponed-perhaps-we/)

[Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/)

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> [Whether we are aware of it or not, every act of trust carries with it a shiver of fear. A favorable situation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piero-ferrucci/whether-we-are-aware-of-it-or-not-every-act-of-trust-carries-with-it/)

[Piero Ferrucci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piero-ferrucci/)

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> [Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/work-on-causal-theories-of-knowledge-early-work-by-armstrong-and/)

[Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/)

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> [Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-gore/earlier-in-this-century-the-heisenberg-principle-established-that-the/)

[Al Gore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-gore/)

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> [If female were working in the same proportion as men do, the level of GDP would be up 27 percent in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christine-lagarde/if-female-were-working-in-the-same-proportion-as-men-do-the-level-of/)

[Christine Lagarde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christine-lagarde/)

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> [What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/what-makes-philosophy-so-tedious-is-not-the-profundity-of/)

[H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/)

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> [“I shall try to persuade first the Rulers and soldiers, and then the rest of the community, that the upbringing and education…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/i-shall-try-to-persuade-first-the-rulers-and-soldiers-and-then-the/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-crane/science-will-always-raise-philosophical-questions-like-is-any/)

[Tim Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-crane/)

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> [In the end, we learn about the most basic philosophical questions - like "How to live?" - from a broad mixture of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-kitcher/in-the-end-we-learn-about-the-most-basic-philosophical-questions-like/)

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

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> [There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/there-is-but-one-truly-serious-philosophical-problem-and-that-is-3/)

[Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/)

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> [I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-cole-kleene/i-had-some-hesitations-about-philosophy-because-if-you-worked-out-a/)

[Stephen Cole Kleene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-cole-kleene/)

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> [My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/my-good-friend-you-are-a-citizen-of-athens-a-city-which-is-very-great/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-agata/plutarch-s-peers-were-writing-rhetorics-which-were-these-dry/)

[John D'Agata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-agata/)

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> [“The letter is only an aid to philosophical communication, the actual essence of which consists in arousing a particular train of thought.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/the-letter-is-only-an-aid-to-philosophical-communication-the-actual/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

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> [ Some philosophers are drawn to the subject \[of philosophy\] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-stanley/some-philosophers-are-drawn-to-the-subject-of-philosophy-via-their/)

Jason Stanley

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> [Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/philosophy-aims-at-the-logical-clarification-of-thoughts-philosophy/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [“We go to school so that when we grow up we can make lots of money, and we make lots of money…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-m-arcejaeger/we-go-to-school-so-that-when-we-grow-up-we-can-make-lots-of-money-and/)

[R.M. ArceJaeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-m-arcejaeger/)

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> [You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rorty/you-read-the-pragmatists-and-all-you-know-is-not-descartes-not-kant/)

[Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rorty/)

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> [The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-frederic-amiel/the-philosopher-is-like-a-man-fasting-in-the-midst-of-universal/)

[Henri Frederic Amiel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-frederic-amiel/)

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> [“When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/when-the-devil-goeth-about-like-a-roaring-lion-he-goeth-about-in-a/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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> [..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/when-in-my-philosophical-disquisitions-i-deny-a-providence-and-a/)

[David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/)

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> [“Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? ... I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/where-am-i-or-what-from-what-causes-do-i-derive-my-existence-and-to/)

[David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/)

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> [I really enjoyed my degree, for me it was the best course you can do. To be able to study the brain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freddie-stroma/i-really-enjoyed-my-degree-for-me-it-was-the-best-course-you-can-do/)

[Freddie Stroma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freddie-stroma/)

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> [Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanislaw-lem/man-s-quest-for-knowledge-is-an-expanding-series-whose-limit-is/)

[Stanislaw Lem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanislaw-lem/)

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                        "text": "“My mother delayed my enrollment in the Fascist scouts, the Balilla , as long as possible, firstly because she did not want me to learn how to handle weapons, but also because the meetings that were then held on Sunday mornings (before the Fascist Saturday was instituted) consisted mostly of a Mass in the scouts' chapel. When I had to be enrolled as part of my school duties, she asked that I be excused from the Mass; this was impossible for disciplinary reasons, but my mother saw to it that the chaplain and the commander were aware that I was not a Catholic and that I should not be asked to perform any external acts of devotion in church. In short, I often found myself in situations different from others, looked on as if I were some strange animal. I do not think this harmed me: one gets used to persisting in one's habits, to finding oneself isolated for good reasons, to putting up with the discomfort that this causes, to finding the right way to hold on to positions which are not shared by the majority. But above all I grew up tolerant of others' opinions, particularly in the field of religion, remembering how irksome it was to hear myself mocked because I did not follow the majority's beliefs. And at the same time I have remained totally devoid of that taste for anticlericalism which is so common in those who are educated surrounded by religion. I have insisted on setting down these memories because I see that many non-believing friends let their children have a religious education 'so as not to give them complexes', 'so that they don't feel different from the others.' I believe that this behavior displays a lack of courage which is totally damaging pedagogically. Why should a young child not begin to understand that you can face a small amount of discomfort in order to stay faithful to an idea? And in any case, who said that young people should not have complexes? Complexes arise through a natural attrition with the reality that surrounds us, and when you have complexes you try to overcome them. Life is in fact nothing but this triumphing over one's own complexes, without which the formation of a character and personality does not happen.”",
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                        "text": "In the end, we learn about the most basic philosophical questions - like \"How to live?\" - from a broad mixture of sources, including literature and philosophy, history and anthropology. These sources can guide our reflections on our own experiences, as we explore and reconsider. Mann contributed to such explorations in a distinctive way, and I hope my book brings that out.",
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