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• I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

  Garry Shandling

  Basketball, Spiritual, Sunday

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• It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

  Ernie Banks

  Energy, Never Quit, Kind

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• For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Medicine, Soma, Body

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.141, Penguin

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• My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Norman (1976). “Alfred Stieglitz”

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• I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

  Aristotle

  Sin, Athenians

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.26, Catholic Way Publishing

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• In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Ignorance, Parent, Lasts

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.177

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• You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics and a few other things. The history of everything.

  John Barth

  Art, Sleep, Literature

  John Barth (2012). “Final Fridays: Essays, Lectures, Tributes & Other Nonfiction, 1995-”, p.262, Counterpoint Press

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• A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

  Edward Abbey

  Ideas, Doe, Philosopher

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

  Edward Abbey

  Hate, School, Knives

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Two, Vocation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

  Edward Abbey

  People, Earth, Rooms

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Plato, Cows

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Crude, Offers

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks

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• Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Men, Rights

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles: he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.

  Thomas Paine

  School, Men, Discovery

  Thomas Paine (1859). “The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub”, p.196

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• The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.

  Thomas Paine

  Teaching, School, Errors

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.197

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• Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.

  Terry Pratchett

  Giving, Answers, Demon

  "Wyrd Sisters". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.

  John Hume

  Broken Heart, Party, Violence

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievment Interview, www.achievement.org. June 08, 2002.

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• It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.'

  John Dewey

  Healing, Technique, Culture

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• Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Men, Animal

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• The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

  Jacques Maritain

  Spiritual, Doe, Texture

  Jacques Maritain (2015). “Existence and the Existent”, p.104, Paulist Press

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• I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

  William James

  Interesting, Perspective, Gentleman

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.487, Library of America

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• The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspire, Intellectual, Mind

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “Dissertations and Discussions”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

  Max Horkheimer

  Complicated, Procedures

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• One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human existence.  Authentic philosophizing refuses to remain at the stage of knowledge […].  Care for human existence and its truth makes philosophy a 'practical science' in the deepest sense, and it also leads philosophy—and this is the crucial point—into the concrete distress of human existence.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Care, Likes, Stage

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