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• Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Two, Hours, Kicks

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• My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teaching, Writing, Happy Life

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• Paul indeed wanted to reveal the unknown God to the philosophers and then affirms of Him, that no human intellect can conceive Him. Therefore, God is revealed therein, that one knows that every intellect is too small to make itself a figuration or concept of Him. However, he names him God, or in Greek, theos.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Names, Greek, Intellect

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• A married philosopher is a comic character.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Married, Comic

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• Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Thinking, Bears

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• Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

  Hannah Arendt

  Confusion

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• Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well enough by the fireside but they prove insufficient in the field. For there you need transcendentalists-nothing less; you need poets, sages, humorists and natural philosophers.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Hero, Friendly, Sage

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• Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Book, Poet, Prophet

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• I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.

  James M. Barrie

  Sleep, Home, Men

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke (Annotated Edition)”, p.51, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.

  Jacques-Louis David

  Philosophy, Artist, Should Have

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• Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Absurd, Said

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• Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.

  Gil Amelio

  Errors, Hemlock, Done

  Gil Amelio, William L. Simon (1998). “On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  One Day, Actors, Done

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.67, Library of America

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• I'm the only man; I'm the only philosopher.

  Kedar Joshi

  Men

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• I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but not her life. When she came to the National Prayer Breakfast and lectured President Clinton about abortion, he had nothing to say to her. He can't argue with a saint. It's too bad there isn't an easier way, because becoming a saint is not the easiest thing in the world. It's much easier to become an apologist or a philosopher or a theologian.

  Peter Kreeft

  Mother, Powerful, Prayer

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• Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' precepts in such wise that they lose their liberty, and cease to give credence to the conclusions of their proper senses. Neither do they swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity that they openly, and in sight of all, deny and desert their friend Truth.

  William Harvey

  Wise, Sight, Giving

  William Harvey, Edward Jenner (2010). “Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology”, p.66, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.

  Marco Rubio

  Needs, More Money

  Twitter post from Nov 11, 2015

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• Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied states is a sophisticated presentation of the shamanic cosmology, which is the cosmology that one experientially discovers when they involve themselves with psychedelics.

  Terence McKenna

  School, Ideas, Ascending

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• I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds, and in our case, the realities we create can be as real as concrete. These kinds of ideas, of wild imagination, go into the question of how you make a world.

  Jimenez Lai

  Real, Thinking, Imagination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• [Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range of wolf experience; in fact, there are soft wolves and hard wolves, kind wolves and malicious wolves, soldiers and nurses, philosophers and bullies.

  Peter Steinhart

  Believe, Office, Nurse

  Peter Steinhart (2011). “The Company of Wolves”, p.142, Vintage

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• I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We know about sex, about violence, about murder, about war. All these things, by the time we're 18, we're up to here. From there on we need interpreters. We need poets. We need philosophers. We need theologians, who take the same basic facts and work with them and help us make do with those facts. Facts alone are not enough. It's interpretation.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sex, Real, War

  "Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.

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• Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to happiness, maybe the key to happiness. People who have more strong relationships in their lives just feel happier.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Strong, Keys, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

  Honore de Balzac

  Wise, Strong, People

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• All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

  Michael Faraday

  Wise, Doubt, Theory

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

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