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• And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

  John Donne

  Fire, Doubt, Looks

  'An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary' (1611) l. 205

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• Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Nature, Sleep, Men

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from May 27, 2016

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• To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

  Thomas Browne

  Faith, Believe, Belief

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.1, section 48.

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• Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

  Socrates

  Death, People, Deep Life

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• ...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

  Plato

  Political, Words Of Wisdom, Should

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

  Victor Cousin

  Cousin

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• It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run

  Charles Kettering

  Running, Easy

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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 in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Plato, Philosophical, Reality

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.

  Epictetus

  Men, Discovery, Causes

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.

  William Vogt

  Journey, Ideas, Roots

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• Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

  Anton Chekhov

  Doe, Useless, Literature

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• Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small ones; and in this complex world, the well-being of the whole depends entirely on the sum of well-being enjoyed by each of the least microscopic particles of organized matter. A whole revolution is thus produced in the philosophy of life.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Cells, Cosmos, World

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• I was doing great plays. It wasn't changing the world. I was getting good agents and doing film and TV and I wasn't happier. I was like "Wow, there is an unease inside of me." And that led me back on my kind of more spiritual path to the Baha'i faith in a new and fresher way and I came to also understand at that point that there was no difference between being devout and being an artist. There is no difference between creativity and spirituality and philosophy and that is what Soul Pancake, the book, and SoulPancake.com are about is: it's all about human expression and it's about seeking to transcend.

  Rainn Wilson

  Spiritual, Book, Creativity

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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  That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• All the world's a stage.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dance

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Suicide, Courage

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• Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

  Eric Hoffer

  Trust, Cheating, Thinking

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• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

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• The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

  Mortimer Adler

  Wisdom, Thinking, Knowing

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Suicide, Deep Thought

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• Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins the journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance.

  Henri Bergson

  Motivational, Spiritual, Ignorance

  "On Intuition vs. Intellect" by Henri Bergson, 1907.

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• I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

  Max Born

  Believe, Philosophical, Science

  "Experiment and Theory in Physics" by Max Born, (p. 44), 1943.

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• What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Death, Wise

  "Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione". Translated by J. W. Basore,

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• Simplify, simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Wise, Philosophical

  Henry David Thoreau (1937). “The selected works of Thoreau”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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