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• New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

  John Locke

  Business, War, Philosophical

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding "Dedicatory Epistle" (1690)

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• All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Done, Should

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• Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls.

  Snoop Dogg

  Cutting, Dope, Gun

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• Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love, Fear, Philosophical

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1971). “Saint Thomas Aquinas”

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• Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it. That depends upon attaining a more explicit grasp of the structure of our thoughts; and that in turn on discovering how to give a systematic account of the working of language, the medium in which we express our thoughts.

  Michael Dummett

  Believe, Philosophical, Views

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• Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

  Will Durant

  Life, Freedom, Knowledge

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's no paradox. Understanding the structure of galaxies is one thing, understanding how we understand the structure of galaxies is quite another. There isn't the slightest reason why the first should wait on the second and, in point of historical fact, it didn't. This bears a lot of emphasis; it turns up in philosophy practically everywhere you look.

  Jerry Fodor

  Knowledge, Waiting, Understanding

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• He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Taken, Eternity

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous. I pretend to no such advantage in the philosophy I am going to unfold, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious.

  David Hume

  Strong, Pain, Lying

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.306

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• I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Philosophical, Thinking, Progress

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• Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are drawn to it by an interest in the capacities that make humans distinctive in the world. I am a philosopher of the latter sort. My work thus far has been clustered around the nexus of knowledge, communication, and human action.

  Jason Stanley

  Communication, Philosophical, World

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• The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Men, Brave

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

  Antonio Porchia

  Philosophical, Found, Seeking

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Light

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 70, 1799.

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• That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Soul, Criticism

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.365, University of Chicago Press

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• The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists - in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Philosophical, Men, Judging

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• Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Morning, Educational, Character

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

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• One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that we fool ourselves about what's true and are wrong about what we conclude is right. And this man, who in a flash sees the universe naked, creates a philosophy or dreams up a religion; and the philosophy spreads and the religion propagates, and those who believe in the philosophy begin to wear it as a suit they don't see, and those who believe in the religion put it on as a mask they soon forget.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Philosophical, Believe

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 255, 1982.

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• Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Real, Philosophical, Philosopher

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• As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it.

  C. D. Broad

  Clever, Philosophical, People

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• True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Virtue, Reason

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• Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Motivational, Philosophical, Phantoms

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

  Robert Breault

  Philosophical, Two, Noses

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• Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

  Heraclitus

  Philosophical, Reality, Names

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• How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?

  Bob Dylan

  Hate, Men, Sky

  Song: Blowin' In The Wind

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