Philosophical Quotes - Page 36

• May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

  Seneca the Younger

  Justice, May, Masters

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Wisdom, Heart

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• Football is the ballet of the masses.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Soccer, Football, Ballet

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• Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Understanding, Speech, Conception

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• I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Reading, Fearless, Library

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• We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Hurt, Fear

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• A great fortune is a great slavery.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Slavery, Fortune

  "Ad Polybium De Consolatione" by Seneca the Younger, Ch. VI, line 5, 40–45 AD.

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• It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

  Tom Stoppard

  Knowledge, Useless Things, Useless Stuff

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  He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

  Confucius

  Education, Giving Up, Knowledge

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

  Immanuel Kant

  Hope, Ought, Knows

  "Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason".

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• Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Danger, Exposure, Constant

  "De Providentia", IV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 158-160), 1922.

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• There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

  Seneca the Younger

  Doe, Noble, Poverty

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• He has committed the crime who profits by it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Poverty, Crime, Profit

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• In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

  Elinor Wylie

  Life, Smile, Years

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.42, Kent State University Press

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• It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race gets credit when the percentage of noble individuals is high.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Race, Class, Noble

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Civilization, Play, Debauchery

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

  Anatole France

  Philosophy, Museums, Paris

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• In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

  Epicurus

  Philosophy, Gains, Defeated

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

  William James

  Philosophy, Men, May

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.61, 谷月社

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• Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

  Isaac Newton

  Philosophy, Science, Men

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.426, Delphi Classics

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• Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

  William James

  Philosophy, Sublime, Pursuit

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1979). “Some Problems of Philosophy”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fun, Serious, Capacity

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• I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that it is just a game. People take these things too seriously.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Games, People

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• The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Fate, Deserve More

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• An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

  Henri Bergson

  Intuition, Analysis, Instinct

  Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

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