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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in
philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Atheism
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Sublime Philosophy!
Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven;
And bright with beckoning angels--but alas!
We see thee like the patriarch, but in dreams,
By the first step,--dull slumbering on the earth.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: Richelieu (act III, sc. 1, l. 4)
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Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher,
And had read ev'ry text and gloss over
Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath,
He understood b' implicit faith.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 127)
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Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to
be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly
recorded.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--On History
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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and
expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been
without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men
scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.
[Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix,
expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita
hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu
dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusc. Quoest. (bk. V, 2, 5)
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The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
Author: Denis Diderot
Source: Last Conversation
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The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own
Weakness and inability in necessary things.
Author: Epictetus
Source: Discourses (bk. II, ch. XI, st. 1)
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Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every
assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism
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This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant
jade on a journey.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Good-Natured Man (act I)
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How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo's lute,
And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,
Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Author: John Milton
Source: Mask of Comus (l. 476)
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That stone, . . .
Philosophers in vain so long have sought.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 600)
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To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical.
[Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]
Author: Blaise Pascal
Source: Pensees (act VII, 35)
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Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by
category-disciplines.
Author: Gilbert Ryle
Source: The Concept of Mind (introduction)
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Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.
Author: John Selden
Source: Table Talk--Philosophy
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, v)
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I'll give thee armor to keep off that word;
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,
To comfort thee, though thou art banished.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at III, iii)
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our
difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to
steer.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Man and Superman (act III)
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Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
[Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
Author: Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues
Source: Pensees Diverses (no. 372, Gilbert's ed., 1857, vol. I, p. 475)
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Why should not grave Philosophy be styled.
Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock,
A dreamer, yet more spiritless and dull?
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Excursion (bk. III)
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The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift,
That no philosophy can lift.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Presentiments
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Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it?
Author: Charles Connolly
Source: None
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. - Memories and Milestones.
Author: John Jay Chapman
Source: None
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It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run.
Author: Charles F. Kettering
Source: None
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Author: Epictetus
Source: None
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Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: None
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A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
Author: Lord Darling
Source: None
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Facts often contradict with truths.
Author: David H.k. Leung
Source: None
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was.
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
Source: None
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Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.
Author: Michael Reed
Source: None
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The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Author: Anthony Jay
Source: None
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If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
Author: Edward Hodnett
Source: None
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The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.
Author: Steve Miller
Source: None
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All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.
Author: Ernest Dimnet
Source: None
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Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. - The Upton Letters.
Author: A. C. Benson
Source: None
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Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
Source: None
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
Author: Jean-paul Satre
Source: None
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... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before? and how can you find out if it is true?
Author: Jim Bower
Source: None
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Source: None
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Author: E. W. Dijkstra
Source: None
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A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
Source: None
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Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Author: Noel Coward
Source: None
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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Every clarification breeds new questions.
Author: Arthur Bloch
Source: None
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Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Author: James A. Froude
Source: None
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Author: Decouvertes
Source: None
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No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.
Author: Sylvia Ashton-warner
Source: None
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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Author: Aristotle
Source: None
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