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> [“What people had had shed and left--a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in wardrobes--those alone kept…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/what-people-had-had-shed-and-left-a-pair-of-shoes-a-shooting-cap-some/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [“What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/what-sort-of-philosophy-one-chooses-depends-therefore-on-what-sort-of/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/the-absolute-things-the-last-things-the-overlapping-things-are-the/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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> [But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/but-perhaps-that-s-why-we-take-snaps-to-provide-false-evidence-to/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-s-anderson/the-definition-of-deism-is-the-philosophical-idea-of-god-as-a-first/)

[Elizabeth S. Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-s-anderson/)

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> [We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/we-might-even-invent-laws-for-series-or-formula-in-an-arbitrary/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

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> [“For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/for-thought-ahab-while-even-the-highest-earthly-felicities-ever-have/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

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> [ “Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. \[...\] A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iain-reid/pretty-much-all-memory-is-fiction-and-heavily-edited-a-memory-is-its/)

[Iain Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iain-reid/)

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> [“WISE God decides different paths for us, That a single soul to follow. He trains us through our journeys to earth, And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dipak-mukhopadhyay/wise-god-decides-different-paths-for-us-that-a-single-soul-to-follow/)

[Dipak Mukhopadhyay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dipak-mukhopadhyay/)

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> [“The discords of our experience--delight in change, fear of change; the death of the individual and the survival of the species, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-kermode/the-discords-of-our-experience-delight-in-change-fear-of-change-the/)

[Frank Kermode](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-kermode/)

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> [It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/it-is-not-easy-to-make-our-lives-respectable-by-any-course-of/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/to-make-a-revolution-people-must-not-only-struggle-against-existing/)

[Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/)

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> [“Which do you think is more valuable to humanity? a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-a-coyne/which-do-you-think-is-more-valuable-to-humanity-a-finding-ways-to/)

[Jerry A. Coyne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-a-coyne/)

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> [Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/pure-physical-sensation-social-status-sexual-attraction-and-feeling/)

[Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/)

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> [...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-l-mackie/it-is-absurd-to-try-to-confine-our-knowledge-and-belief-to-matters/)

[J. L. Mackie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-l-mackie/)

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> [I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kwame-anthony-appiah/i-started-philosophy-looking-for-answers-but-along-the-way-i-came-to/)

[Kwame Anthony Appiah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kwame-anthony-appiah/)

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> [“Devil-boy Jack: "A higher power than ours directs us against the wych-kin. There is no turning back." Thaniel Fox: "There is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-wooding/devil-boy-jack-a-higher-power-than-ours-directs-us-against-the-wych/)

[Chris Wooding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-wooding/)

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> [Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bell-hooks/professors-rarely-speak-of-the-place-of-eros-or-the-erotic-in-our/)

[Bell Hooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bell-hooks/)

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> [In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/in-the-discovery-of-secret-things-and-in-the-investigation-of-hidden-2/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-trumbull-ladd/a-high-place-of-honor-although-doubtless-one-to-be-obtained-only/)

[George Trumbull Ladd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-trumbull-ladd/)

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> [We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/we-have-really-that-i-know-of-no-philosophical-basis-for-high-and-low/)

[Asa Gray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asa-gray/)

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> [Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/blasphemy-is-an-artistic-effect-because-blasphemy-depends-upon-a/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luc-de-clapiers/newton-pascal-bossuet-racine-f-nelon-that-is-to-say-some-of-the-most/)

[Luc de Clapiers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luc-de-clapiers/)

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> [To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-schweitzer/to-affirm-life-is-to-deepen-to-make-more-inward-and-to-exalt-the-will/)

[Albert Schweitzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-schweitzer/)

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> [Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-locke/long-discourses-and-philosophical-readings-at-best-amaze-and-confound/)

[John Locke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-locke/)

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> [“Hitherto philosophers have had the solution of all riddles lying in their writing-desks, and the stupid, exoteric world had only to open…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/hitherto-philosophers-have-had-the-solution-of-all-riddles-lying-in/)

[Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/)

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> [Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-belafonte/poverty-continues-to-exist-its-appearance-seems-to-be-relentless-in/)

[Harry Belafonte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-belafonte/)

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> [“the illusion is encouraged that philosophy is an irrelevant, abstract subject - part of the decoration of a cultured life perhaps, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-illusion-is-encouraged-that-philosophy-is-an-irrelevant-abstract/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther/it-is-necessary-to-understand-that-black-power-is-a-cry-of/)

[Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther/)

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> [Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-stalin/marxism-is-not-only-the-theory-of-socialism-it-is-an-integral-world/)

[Joseph Stalin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-stalin/)

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> [I'm interested in philosophy, I studied it, and I also admit I try to read things that are way above me. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-lopatin/i-m-interested-in-philosophy-i-studied-it-and-i-also-admit-i-try-to/)

[Daniel Lopatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-lopatin/)

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> [In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/in-the-case-of-all-other-sciences-arts-skills-and-crafts-everyone-is/)

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

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> [ \[This approach\] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/this-approach-displays-the-characteristic-philosophical-lust-to/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

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> [Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/any-moral-philosophy-is-exceedingly-rare-this-of-menu-addresses-our/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-zelazny/good-evening-lord-corwin-said-the-lean-cadaverous-figure-who-rested/)

[Roger Zelazny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-zelazny/)

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> [The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-alexander-leighton/the-more-serious-poetry-of-the-race-has-a-philosophical-structure-of/)

[Joseph Alexander Leighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-alexander-leighton/)

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> [ Natura nihil agit frustra \[Nature does nothing in vain\] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature;… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/natura-nihil-agit-frustra-nature-does-nothing-in-vain-is-the-only/)

[Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/)

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> [We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/we-can-either-have-a-twenty-first-century-conversation-about-morality/)

[Sam Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-harris/)

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> [Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-tillich/why-does-philosophy-use-concepts-and-why-does-faith-use-symbols-if/)

[Paul Tillich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-tillich/)

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> [For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarice-lispector/for-only-when-i-err-do-i-get-away-from-what-i-know-and-what-i/)

[Clarice Lispector](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarice-lispector/)

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                        "text": "“For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not blue the obvious deduction. To trail the genealogies of these high mortal miseries, carries us at last among the sourceless primogenitures of the gods; so that, in the face of all the glad, hay-making suns, and the softcymballing, round the harvest-moons, we must needs give in to this: that the gods themselves are not for ever glad. The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers.”",
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                        "text": "“WISE God decides different paths for us, That a single soul to follow. He trains us through our journeys to earth, And gives us misery and sorrow. Sufferings or happiness, none stay forever, They come and go like waves, A wise treats both as gifts of God, Balanced he always behaves. From : RAINS OF GEMS ISBN : a) Softcover : 978-1-4828-1304-3 b) Ebook : 978-1-4828-1303-6”",
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                        "text": "“The discords of our experience--delight in change, fear of change; the death of the individual and the survival of the species, the pains and pleasures of love, the knowledge of light and dark, the extinction and the perpetuity of empires--these were Spenser's subject; and they could not be treated without this third thing, a kind of time between time and eternity. He does not make it easy to extract philosophical notions from his text; but that he is concerned with the time-defeating aevum and uses it as a concord-fiction, I have no doubt. 'The seeds of knowledge,' as Descartes observed, 'are within us like fire in flint; philosophers educe them by reason, but the poets strike them forth by imagination, and they shine the more clearly.' We leave behind the philosophical statements, with their pursuit of logical consequences and distinctions, for a free, self-delighting inventiveness, a new imagining of the problems. Spenser used something like the Augustinian seminal reasons; he was probably not concerned about later arguments against them, finer discriminations. He does not tackle the questions, in the Garden cantos, of concreation, but carelessly--from a philosophical point of view--gives matter chronological priority. The point that creation necessitates mutability he may have found in Augustine, or merely noticed for himself, without wondering how it could be both that and a consequence of the Fall; it was an essential feature of one's experience of the world, and so were all the arguments, precise or not, about it. Now one of the differences between doing philosophy and writing poetry is that in the former activity you defeat your object if you imitate the confusion inherent in an unsystematic view of your subject, whereas in the second you must in some measure imitate what is extreme and scattering bright, or else lose touch with that feeling of bright confusion. Thus the schoolmen struggled, when they discussed God, for a pure idea of simplicity, which became for them a very complex but still rational issue: for example, an angel is less simple than God but simpler than man, because a species is less simple than pure being but simpler than an individual. But when a poet discusses such matters, as in say 'Air and Angels,' he is making some human point, in fact he is making something which is, rather than discusses, an angel--something simple that grows subtle in the hands of commentators. This is why we cannot say the Garden of Adonis is wrong as the Faculty of Paris could say the Averroists were wrong. And Donne's conclusion is more a joke about women than a truth about angels. Spenser, though his understanding of the expression was doubtless inferior to that of St. Thomas, made in the Garden stanzas something 'more simple' than any section of the Summa. It was also more sensuous and more passionate. Milton used the word in his formula as Aquinas used it of angels; poetry is more simple, and accordingly more difficult to talk about, even though there are in poetry ideas which may be labelled 'philosophical.”",
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                        "text": "Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here in America, but certainly what we see globally. And I don't see anywhere any philosophical analysis that suggests we know how to get out of this.",
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