"The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy."
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"This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business."
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"Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems."
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"The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness."
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"It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor."
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"When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker."
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"Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping."
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"My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more."
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"Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so."
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"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."
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"Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars."
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"A philosopher must be more than a philosopher."
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"One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world."
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"Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp."
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"From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition."
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"Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much."
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"Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet."
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"All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive."
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"When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it."
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"What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet."
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