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Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.
-Anon.
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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
-Proverb
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Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
-Henry Adams
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I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
-Woody Allen
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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
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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
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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
-Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
-Gaston Bachelard
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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.
-Francis Bacon
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
-Francis Bacon
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In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning.
-Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac
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What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
-George Berkeley
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A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
-Ambrose Bierce
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
-Francis H. Bradley
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-Alexander Broadie
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Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
-Anita Brookner
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Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
-John Burroughs
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
-Samuel Butler
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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
-Albert Camus
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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
-Elias Canetti
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Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
-Dale Carnegie
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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
-Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Books about Philosophy
