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"Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame."
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"I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few."
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"My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else."
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"Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking."
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"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
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"It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further."
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"Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its myths are distorted, dramatized allegories based on some element of truth, some actual, if profoundly elusive, aspect of man's existence."
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"Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go."
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"An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind."
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"Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it."
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"An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes."
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"In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence."
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"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."
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"Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly."
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"Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character in the universe, and of the inadequacy of fully to match it [to] the peculiar systems that he knows."
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"In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life."
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"A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life. When he has the daring to open doors to new experiences. When he is unafraid of new ideas, new theories and new philosophies. When he has the curiosity to experiment. When he breaks the chain of routine."
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"Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy."
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"A man is a god in ruins."
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