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«Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life»
«Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
busy, consciousness, everyday, livelier, lively, mode, unconcerned
«I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.»
Author: Ludwig Feuerbach
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abstains, brawl, brawling, formally, founder, founders, i.e., I E, mode, ostentation, The Philosopher, The Standard
«It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others»
«Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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affair, anew, belonging, end product, existing, expel, expelled, Happy ending, hold in, in-between, indication, indications, insert, inserted, inserting, in a sense, in common, love affair, mode, New World, partners, related, relates, representative, Return to, separates, The Lovers, transformed, worldliness, world affairs
«I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms»
«Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Marriage,
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
amount, commonest, endured, livelihood, marriage, mode, probably, prostitution, total, undesired
«Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
mode, regard, regard to, with regard to
«HEAT, n.Heat, says Professor Tyndall, is a mode Of motion, but I know now how he's proving His point; but this I know --hot words bestowed With skill will set the human fist a-moving, And where it stops the stars burn free and wild._Crede expertum_ --I have seen them, child. --Gorton Swope»
«I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your v»
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