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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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• Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Truth, Irrelevance, Arise

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.213, University of Illinois Press

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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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• The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Honesty, Integrity, Selfish

  "Stop the Madness". "The Globe and Mail" Newspaper, July 6, 2002.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

  Gorgias

  Communication, Knowledge, Words Of Wisdom

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• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

  Plato

  Life, Death, Wisdom

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• Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.

  Dietrich von Hildebrand

  Love, Beauty, Hope

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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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• Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed. Let there be no other differences between human beings than those of age and sex. Since all have the same needs and the same faculties, let there be one education for all, one food for all.

  Francois-Noel Babeuf

  Education, Sex, Food

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• Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.

  Koichi Tohei

  Art, Hands, Water

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• The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Truth, Lying, Liars

  "Donald Rumsfeld Hasn't Learned a Damn Thing" by James G. Blight and Janet M. Lang, www.politico.com. April 04, 2014.

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