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• Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

  Jack Kornfield

  Healing, Medicine, Soma

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• Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Path, Mystery

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.159, Random House

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• That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Winning, Philosophy Love

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• Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Buddhism, Facts, Spirit

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.33, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.

  Henry Ford

  Simple, Automobile, Diets

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• Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Given, Conclusion, Articles

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.106, Oxford University Press

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• The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Past, Preparation, Poetic

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• It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

  Maurice Barres

  Art, History, Giving

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• The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Esoteric, Tradition, Logical

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.550, Penguin

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• Service Over the years, the number one driver of our growth at Zappos has been repeat customers and word of mouth. Our philosophy has been to take most of the money we would have spent on paid advertising and invest it into customer service and the customer experience instead, letting our customers do the marketing for us through word of mouth.

  Tony Hsieh

  Years, Numbers, Growth

  "Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose". Book by Tony Hsieh, 2010.

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• The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle

  Robert Sobukwe

  Struggle, Sea, Democracy

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• I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into the Other World', and with his belief that drugs can procure 'what Catholic theologians call a gratuitous grace'. Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

  Arthur Koestler

  Doors, Other Worlds, Drug

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

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• I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

  Brit Marling

  Life, Political, Actors

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• We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

  Humphry Davy

  Reason, Natural, Perceive

  Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)”, p.303

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• Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew fourengines bombers during World War II. He was in B17 Flying Fortresses out of England, they say. His cautious, conservative approach to every situation and the complexity of the plays he sends in do seem to reflect the philosophy of a pilot trained to doggedly press on according to plans laid down before takeoff. I sometimes wonder how the Cowboys would have fared all this years had Tom flown fighters in combat situations which dictated continuously changing tactics.

  Len Morgan

  War, Believe, Cowboy

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• The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fighting, Night, Sweat

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that a part of the job will be left undone.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Jobs, Responsibility, Height

  "The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan".

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• The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Tasks, Analysis, Language

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• Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Views

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.177, Hackett Publishing

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• We really are All One....this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.

  Bill Hicks

  Years, America, Fifteen

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• I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

  Max Born

  Theoretical Physics, Convinced, Physics

  "Schrodinger : Life and Thought" by Walter J. Moore, (p. 1), 1992.

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• If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the vacuum, nothingness], and our task to disentangle the natural laws would be hopelessly difficult. The fact however that alpha has just its value 1/137 is certainly no chance but itself a law of nature. It is clear that the explanation of this number must be the central problem of natural philosophy.

  Max Born

  Law, Numbers, Matter

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• The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Simple, Silence, Next

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• My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Plato, Mind, Study

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• Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Men, Taxes, Teach

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.98, BookBaby

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