Philosophy Quotes
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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
Plato
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There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
Benjamin Cardozo
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I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.
Aristotle
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
Adam Ferguson
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Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
Albert Einstein
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I am a lover, and I deal in love. Sow flowers,
So your surroundings become a garden.
Don't sow thorns; for they will prick your feet.
We are all one body,
Whoever tortures another, wounds himself.
Rahman Baba
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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
Aristotle
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Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.
Daisaku Ikeda
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Dag Hammarskjold
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The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.
Orlando Bloom
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What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
Galen Rowell
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
F. Sionil Jose