"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
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"True virtue is life under the direction of reason."
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"I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed."
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"We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges."
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"Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets."
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"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."
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"The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born."
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"Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe."
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"Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written."
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"Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori."
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"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."
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"Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."
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"Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy."
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"Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors."
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"We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans."
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"Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce."
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"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility."
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"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."
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"If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before."
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"The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual."
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