"Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
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"We learn geology the morning after the earthquake."
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"The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism."
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"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."
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"Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation."
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"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
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"In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt. Our merchants and master manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods, both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits; they are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people."
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"Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man."
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"It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you."
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"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
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"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy."
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"Take it easy, but take it."
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"Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds."
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"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
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"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."
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"The end of labor is to gain leisure."
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"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy"
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"The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is."
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"There is no reality except the one contained within us."
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"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you."
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