"Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy."
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"Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience."
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"Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither."
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"The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body."
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"Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself."
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"If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone."
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"If you don't like my fire, then don't come around. Cause I'm gonna burn one down."
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"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."
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"It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England."
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"Art is far feebler than necessity."
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"... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias."
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"Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud."
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"Money goes to money heaven, body goes to body hell."
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"I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was."
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"What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present it on all occasions; but sound philosophy ought carefully to guard against so natural an illusion."
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"All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. Even Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science of MAN; since they lie under the cognizance of men, and are judged of by their powers and faculties."
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"Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert that abstruse philosophy and metaphysical jargon, which, being mixed up with popular superstition, renders it in a manner impenetrable to careless reasoners, and gives it the air of science and wisdom."
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"Yoga began as a philosophy rather than as a physical discipline."
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"The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of."
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"I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I."
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