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• Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'

  Bam Margera

  Fun, Trying, Miserable

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• If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.

  Shelley Berman

  Glasses, Water, Giving

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• Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

  Thurston Moore

  Religious, Buddhism, Exotic

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• There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.

  Jaegwon Kim

  Real, Lunch, Real Life

  Jaegwon Kim (2000). “Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-body Problem and Mental Causation”, p.60, MIT Press

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• Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the dubious exhilaration of grand philosophical theory, in which messy reality is tamed and caged, but the thrill of seeing pretension punctured by a kind of high-voltage common sense (backed up by impressive erudition). . . . There is no one in philosophy quite like him.

  Colin McGinn

  Philosophical, Writing, Reality

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• I know of no long-time practitioner who regrets adhering to a value philosophy; few investors who embrace the fundamental principles ever abandon this investment approach for another

  Seth Klarman

  Regret, Long, Principles

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• Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely sees in anthropology. Lifeworlds, unsurprisingly, is no exception. The several essays included here fit into an impressive whole that set out a compelling case for a type of ethnography of which Jackson is one of the masters. The writing is strong and the critical reflections impressive. This book defines an approach to anthropology that is resonant enough to challenge the leading models of our time.

  Arthur Kleinman

  Strong, Book, Writing

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• I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more natural, as in how it is lived in the person. We don’t separate thinking from feeling in real life, so why should we separate it in writing?

  Etel Adnan

  Real, Moving, Writing

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• Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh.

  Amrita Pritam

  Silence

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• In other philosophies, my questions would get answered to some degree, but then I would have a follow-up question and there would be no answer. The logic would dead-end. In Scientology you can find answers for anything you could ever think to ask. These are not pushed off on you as, 'This is the answer, you have to believe in it.' In Scientology you discover for yourself what is true for you.

  Jenna Elfman

  Believe, Thinking, Degrees

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• You gotta think positive, you know. Make the obstacles opportunities. Thats my philosophy.

  Melina Kanakaredes

  Opportunity, Thinking, Think Positive

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• I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do and do the best I can. That is enough.

  Maria Schell

  Simple, Enough, Enjoy

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• In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

  Bela Lugosi

  Law, Careers, Medicine

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• I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

  Aldo Leopold

  Journey, Land, Ends

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.1213, Library of America

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• Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Two, Skulls, Body

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

  Murray Kempton

  Government, Demand, Convenience

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• A man is a god in ruins.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Art, Men

  Nature ch. 8 (1836).

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• Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  God, Philosopher, Great Unknown

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• To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

  William Ralph Inge

  Religion, Superstitions

  Idea of Progress (Romanes Lecture delivered at Oxford, 27 May 1920) p. 9

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• A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Ideas, Religion, Would Be

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.378

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• Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humble, Bully, Enemy

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• A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Moon, Men, Religion

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• History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Teaching, Geography And History, Example

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• Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

  Jacques Ellul

  History, Human Experience, Humans

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• Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a detailed account of things that never occurred. It is useless to fill the individual with dates of great battles, with the births and deaths of kings. They should be taught the philosophy of history, the growth of nations, of philosophies, theories, and, above all, of the sciences.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kings, Years, History

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