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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Doe, Needs, Spontaneous

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.10, Routledge

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• In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

  Iris Murdoch

  Moving, Pace, Literature

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.500, Penguin

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• All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

  Samuel Butler

  Philosophical, Home, Philosopher

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4349, Delphi Classics

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• Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

  Diane Ackerman

  May, Way, Feels

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

  Kitaro Nishida

  Happiness, Happy, Children

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• A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Greatness, Novel

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 19, 2017

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• The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wisdom, War, Common Sense

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

  William James

  Philosophical, Philosopher, One Thing

  "Memories and Studies".

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• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

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• Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

  Douglas Adams

  Badass, Thinking, Hitchhiking

  "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". Book by Douglas Adams, 1987.

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• I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.

  Harlan Ellison

  Pain, Sadness, Survival

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Paingod: And Other Delusions”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

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  Ram Dass

  Freedom, Yoga, Philosophical

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• We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Real, Philosophical, Men

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• About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Subjects

  "Athenaeum Fragments" (1798) by Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

  Epictetus

  Weakness, Inability, Consciousness

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus, Book II. Ch, XI. St. 1,

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• If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mind, Philosopher, Rate

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 23, 1799.

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• Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Secret, Attention, Ethics

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

  Aristotle

  Words Of Wisdom, Substance, Destruction

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• I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation, such as the stuff you talk about financiers and the money market, well, I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I dont THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are.

  Plato

  Sorry, Thinking, Talking

  Plato (2013). “Plato - Dialogues”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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• Get the hell out of my way!

  Ayn Rand

  Strength, Courage, Military

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2340, Penguin

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• Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Plato, Science, Doe

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• We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Profound, Feelings

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 49, 1799.

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• There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Believe, Science, Light

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• How charming is divine philosophy!
  Not harsh and crabb

  John Milton

  Charming, Divine, Harsh

  'Comus' (1637) l. 475

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