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> [Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/philosophers-have-actually-devoted-themselves-in-the-main-neither-to-2/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

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> [It is amazing that 2001: A Space Odyssey has not aged at all, except for a few minor technical gadgets. The main…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-harlan/it-is-amazing-that-2001-a-space-odyssey-has-not-aged-at-all-except/)

[Jan Harlan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-harlan/)

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> [Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/fishermen-hunters-woodchoppers-and-others-spending-their-lives-in-the/)

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

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> [ \[T\]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tyler-burge/t-here-is-a-methodological-bias-in-favor-of-taking-natural-discourse/)

[Tyler Burge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tyler-burge/)

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> [Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zelda-fitzgerald/most-people-hew-the-battlements-of-life-from-compromise-erecting/)

[Zelda Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zelda-fitzgerald/)

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> [Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-carroll/alice-came-to-a-fork-in-the-road-which-road-do-i-take-she-asked-where/)

[Lewis Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-carroll/)

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> [People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-blackburn/people-who-have-cut-their-teeth-on-philosophical-problems-of/)

[Simon Blackburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-blackburn/)

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> [“If a philosophical writer cannot be followed, the difficulty of his subject can be placed only in mitigation of his offense, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-zinsser/if-a-philosophical-writer-cannot-be-followed-the-difficulty-of-his/)

[William Zinsser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-zinsser/)

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> [The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherley-anne-williams/the-blues-records-of-each-decade-explain-something-about-the/)

[Sherley Anne Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherley-anne-williams/)

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> [The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-new-statement-will-comprise-the-skepticisms-as-well-as-the-faiths/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/what-is-at-stake-is-civilization-and-humanity-nothing-less-the-idea/)

[Irving Kristol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-kristol/)

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> [The human brain is hardwired to have this fundamental experience of universal consciousness, which is available to anyone from any culture, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-hagelin/the-human-brain-is-hardwired-to-have-this-fundamental-experience-of/)

[John Hagelin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-hagelin/)

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> [Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-voegelin/philosophy-springs-from-the-love-of-being-it-is-man-s-loving-endeavor/)

[Eric Voegelin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-voegelin/)

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> [I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-koons/i-believe-that-my-art-gets-across-the-point-that-i-m-in-this-morality/)

[Jeff Koons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-koons/)

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> [Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mehmet-murat-ildan/nature-is-a-good-teacher-he-who-can-read-the-nature-well-he-can-learn/)

[Mehmet Murat Ildan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mehmet-murat-ildan/)

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> [Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-scott-peck/most-do-not-fully-see-this-truth-that-life-is-difficult-instead-they-2/)

[M. Scott Peck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-scott-peck/)

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> [As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-sterling/as-a-philosophical-problem-it-comes-down-to-a-better-way-to-engage/)

[Bruce Sterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-sterling/)

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> [So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-ive/so-much-of-what-we-try-to-do-is-get-to-a-point-where-the-solution/)

[Jonathan Ive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-ive/)

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> [“What these sounds mean, he thought, is: I am alive and so are you. And we’re all very worried that we might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/what-these-sounds-mean-he-thought-is-i-am-alive-and-so-are-you-and-we/)

[Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/)

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> [“Futility can lead to thought, the laughable can become serious, and depth can succeed superficiality. Not all the time, and not necessarily,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/futility-can-lead-to-thought-the-laughable-can-become-serious-and/)

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

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> [ “\[The Void Which Binds\] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/the-void-which-binds-actual-but-unaccessible-presence-in-our-universe/)

[Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/)

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> [Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-gramsci/common-sense-is-not-something-rigid-and-stationary-but-is-in/)

[Antonio Gramsci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-gramsci/)

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> [Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-von-helmholtz/not-that-i-wish-by-any-means-to-deny-that-the-mental-life-of/)

[Hermann von Helmholtz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-von-helmholtz/)

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> [I feel like I'm constantly tangled in some kind of bureaucratic web and constantly making the tangible philosophical. Constantly trying to win…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julio-torres/i-feel-like-i-m-constantly-tangled-in-some-kind-of-bureaucratic-web/)

[Julio Torres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julio-torres/)

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> [Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-a-carson/some-people-say-what-s-the-use-of-the-term-if-it-has-to-be-so-fully/)

[D. A. Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-a-carson/)

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> [We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-simon-laplace/we-are-so-far-from-knowing-all-the-forces-of-nature-and-their-various/)

[Pierre-Simon Laplace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-simon-laplace/)

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> [In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-needleman/in-order-to-teach-a-course-in-the-history-of-western-religious/)

[Jacob Needleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-needleman/)

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> [Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-coulter/swing-voters-are-more-appropriately-known-as-the-idiot-voters-because/)

[Ann Coulter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-coulter/)

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> [“Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rassool-jibraeel-snyman/some-of-us-teach-ourselves-and-our-children-to-love-the-superficial/)

[rassool jibraeel snyman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rassool-jibraeel-snyman/)

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> [Somebody insults you and you feel anger. Don't miss this opportunity; try to understand why, why this anger. And don't make it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/somebody-insults-you-and-you-feel-anger-don-t-miss-this-opportunity/)

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

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> [“Plus, if I can wax philosophical for a paragraph, there's an even more fundamental principle involved here, and it apples to everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-patterson/plus-if-i-can-wax-philosophical-for-a-paragraph-there-s-an-even-more/)

[James Patterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-patterson/)

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> [The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/the-scripture-was-written-to-shew-unto-men-the-kingdom-of-god-and-to/)

[Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/)

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> [Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/every-philosophical-problem-when-it-is-subjected-to-the-necessary/)

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

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> [I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/i-still-lack-a-political-religious-and-philosophical-world-view-i/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

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> [I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-know-nothing-of-philosophical-philanthropy-but-i-know-what-i-have/)

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

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> [“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/it-s-now-very-common-to-hear-people-say-i-m-rather-offended-by-that/)

[Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/)

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> [We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willard-van-orman-quine/we-must-not-leap-to-the-fatalistic-conclusion-that-we-are-stuck-with/)

[Willard Van Orman Quine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willard-van-orman-quine/)

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> [I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-mapother/i-can-be-a-bit-of-a-science-geek-i-tend-more-towards-reading-about-2/)

[William Mapother](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-mapother/)

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> [Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/henry-s-universe-was-modeled-on-the-highball-it-was-a-mixture-in/)

[Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldous-huxley/)

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> [Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/phenomenology-is-not-a-philosophy-it-is-a-philosophical-method-a-tool/)

[Colin Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-wilson/)

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                        "text": "...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it.",
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                        "text": "Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.",
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                        "text": "Somebody insults you and you feel anger. Don't miss this opportunity; try to understand why, why this anger. And don't make it a philosophical thing. Don't go to the library to consult about anger. Anger is happening to you -- it is an experience, a live experience. Focus your whole attention on it and try to understand why it is happening to you. It is not a philosophical problem. No Freud is to be consulted about it. There is no need! It is just foolish to consult somebody else while anger is happening to you. You can touch it. You can taste it. You will be burned by it.",
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