"Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man."
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"'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed"
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"I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible. The thing that's always been interesting to me about religion is that compared to the more modern spirituality, the West Coast pseudo-Buddhist thing that people go for these days, actual Buddhism and Islam have been looking at these philosophical questions, at really hard questions, for a long time. There's a lot of stuff that philosophy doesn't talk about, and in the secular world, a lot of times, people don't talk about these ideas, and that was always really interesting for me."
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"We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices."
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"There is no possible source of evil except good."
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"It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us."
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"The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic."
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"The man who renounces himself, comes to himself."
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"The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs."
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"Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes."
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"The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent."
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"Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence."
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"If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another."
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"There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead."
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"If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero."
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"It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong."
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"There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems."
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"Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities."
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"Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so."
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"Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years."
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