"It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know."
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"Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them."
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"I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers."
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"We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?"
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"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine."
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"What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have been defiled, like food that has been touched by the tongue, for they have been read or uttered by the tongue. Only one thing has not been defiled in this way, and that is Brahman. No one has ever been able to say what Brahman is."
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"The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish."
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"We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased."
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"Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?"
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"Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana."
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"Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us."
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"The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality."
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"My philosophy is TRUTH unto me. Through expressing my individuality I become free."
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"The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational"
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"The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe."
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"You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life."
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"Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is 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. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth."
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"The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism."
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"In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred."
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"The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason."
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