"Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher"
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"Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right."
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"In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names."
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"These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate."
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"One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers."
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"I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers."
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"Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life."
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"A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?"
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"If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation of the press is the most difficult, dangerous and important problem they have to resolve. Mankind cannot now be governed without it, nor at present with it."
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"The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind."
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"Philosophy is everybody's business."
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"It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him."
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"Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing."
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"If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage."
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"Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope."
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"A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted."
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"It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher."
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"I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved."
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"On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die."
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"By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher."
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