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Letter "P" » philosophical
«Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute»
Author: Erich Heller
| About:
Philosophy
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«Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.»
Author: Freda Adler
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chooses, ethical, philosophical, pretensions, prohibit, rationalization, rationalizations, stripped
«Nearly all the philosophical and mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from India»
Author: Ludwig von Schroder
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«One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.»
Author: Frank Zappa
(Composer, Guitarist, Satirist, Song Writer)
| About:
Philosophy
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«No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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maintained, No Policy, permanently, philosophical, public policy
«My objection to Liberalism is this -- that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind -- namely, politics -- of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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introduction, namely, objection, philosophical, Politics of, practical politics
«Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history.»
«Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Poetry
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expresses, finer, history, particular, Particulars, philosophical, poetry, universal, Universals
«Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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philosophical, surprising
«Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.»
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