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Oscar Wilde Writer
Philosophy

"There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly."

Philosophy Loss Clever
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Ovid Poet
Philosophy

"It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist."

Believe Art Philosophy
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Neil Gaiman Author
Philosophy

"You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue."

Philosophy Grief Farewell
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Philosophy

"Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the nature of the universe from the statements and philosophies contained in religious writings.... Had any of these efforts worked, science and religion today might be one and the same. But they are not."

Writing Religious Philosophy
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Philosophy

"I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world-the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life."

Philosophy Unique Priorities In Life
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Philosophy

"Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd."

Philosophy Ignorance Intelligent
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Lauren Oliver Author
Philosophy

"What is beauty? Beauty is no more than a trick; a delusion; the influence of excited particles and electrons colliding in your eyes, jostling in your brain like a bunch of overeager school children, about to be released on break. Will you let yourself be deluded? Will you let yourself be decieved? -"On Beauty and Falsehood," The New Philosophy, by Ellen Dorpshire"

Children Eye Philosophy
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Isaac Newton Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
Philosophy

"I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely bid adew to it eternally, excepting for what I do for my private satisfaction or leave to come out after me. For I see a man must either resolve to put out nothing new or to become a slave to defend it."

Men Science Philosophy
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Philosophy

"I don't think I have something that's pronounceable as a philosophy. ... When it was fashionable to say, "May the Force be with you," I always said, "Force yourself." ... I'll say again then, "The Force is within you. Force yourself.""

Thinking May Philosophy
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Frances Wright Abolitionist, Social Reformer
Philosophy

"You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems."

Real Philosophy Heard
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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
Philosophy

"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men."

Men Order Philosophy
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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
Philosophy

"Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent."

Men Philosophy Progress
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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
Philosophy

"The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is not fully appearing is not collected into assertion, whereby error might draw error, but reserved in doubt: the other, that the entry of doubts are as so many suckers or sponges to draw use of knowledge; insomuch as that which, if doubts had not preceded, a man should never have advised, but passed it over without note, by the suggestion and solicitation of doubts, is made to be attended and applied."

Men Philosophy Errors
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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
Philosophy

"In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man."

Character Philosophy Knowledge
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