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"So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence."
"The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd."
"All philosophy is a form of confession."
"I always wanted to see if I could sell a movie to the public without doing any marketing because my philosophy was like, 'Hey man, I'm reaching my audience everyday. I'm twittering with them. I'm in direct contact with them on the podcast.'"
"To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher."
"Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body."
"There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy."
"I get a feeling of peace from a low so high, as I sit in my chair and watch life go by."
"An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth."
"He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king."
"I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits."
"Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose."
"Man is condemned to be free"
"You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it."
"Good and evil lay side by side."
"We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic."
"Man errs as long as he strives."
"One lives but once in the world."
"Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains."
"Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before."
