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Philosopher Quotes by William James
- Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.
- There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
- To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
- What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
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