"My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong."
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"It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next."
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"Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high."
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"We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do."
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"To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together."
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"All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion."
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"Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man."
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"Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils."
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"The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn"
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"Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people."
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"Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy."
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"If you take five white guys and put 'em with five black guys, and let 'em hang around together for about a month, and at the end of the month, you'll notice that the white guys are walking and talking and standing like the black guys do. You'll never see the black guys going, "Oh, golly! We won the big game today, yes sir!" But you'll see guys with red hair named Duffy going, "What's happenin'?""
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"Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech--in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest."
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"Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses."
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"Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths."
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"Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them."
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"...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first."
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"Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be."
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"The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem."
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"A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep."
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