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  Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

  Babe Ruth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Humor, Serious

  Garth Hallett, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977). “A companion to Wittgenstein's "Philosophical investigations"”, Cornell Univ Pr

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• Things do not change; we change.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tired, Past, Long Ago

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• Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

  Stephen Hawking

  "Stephen Hawking tells Google ‘philosophy is dead’". Google Zeitgeist Conference, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 17, 2011.

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• There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Fate, Names

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  Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

  Marquis de Sade

  Moving, Men, Light

  Marquis de Sade, David Coward (1999). “The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales”, p.1, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fall, Autumn, Sand

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Essays and Lectures”, p.73, Xist Publishing

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• Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Philosopher, Sincerity, Mark

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (p. 596-97), Pensées Diverses, No. 372. Gilbert's ed. (1857), Volume I, p. 475, 1922.

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• Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Secret, Philosopher

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Practice, Vices

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• How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.

  Augustus William Hare

  Hands, People, Moments

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature, may prove the former affections to be nothing but modifications of the latter. All attempts of this kind have hitherto proved fruitless, and seem to have proceeded entirely from that love of simplicity which has been the source of much false reasoning in philosophy.

  David Hume

  Simplicity, Words Of Wisdom, May

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.402

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• A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

  Francis Bacon

  Atheist, Men, Mind

  Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)

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• A cult is a religion with no political power.

  Tom Wolfe

  Religious, Power, Cult Of Personality

  In Our Time ch. 2 (1980) See Feibleman 1

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• If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

  Stanislaw Lem

  Men, Gambling, Lucky Day

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• I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

  Ayn Rand

  Struggle, Long, World

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.620, Hamilton Books

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• In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

  Timothy Leary

  Decision, 50th Birthday, Age

  "The Best Advice Ever for Teachers" by Charles McGuire and Diana Abitz, (p. 57), 2001.

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• I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

  Douglas Coupland

  Hurt, Soul, Religion

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

  Isaac Newton

  Philosophical, Science, Men

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.426, Delphi Classics

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• No problem is so big and difficult that it can't be blamed on somebody else.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophical, Problem, Bigs

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• The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has far-reaching effects in every aspect of a person's life. It ultimately makes people protective of the environment in a very committed way. It is my opinion that the study of natural history should be the primary avenue for creating environmentalists.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Hard Work, Science, Creating

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• I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Regret, Two, Advice

  "Either/Or". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, February 20, 1843.

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• Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

  Will Durant

  Giving

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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