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Letter "P" » philosophizes
«Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
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Disappointment
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«It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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«Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenome»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
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«When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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«How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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«It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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«To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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«To philosophize is to doubt»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, rather, he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think, he acts: and it's nothing he can explain, he just feels how things should go.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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