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Letter "P" » philosophy
«There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.»
«They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
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«The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
end point, paradoxical, philosophy, point, Point of, stating, the point, to seem
«The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
depend, depend on, feeling, given, philosophy, testimony, value
«The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.»
Author: Epictetus
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
depend, essence, external, externals, in essence, philosophy, possible, shall
«There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
bodied, body, deepest, More, philosophy, Than, there is, wisdom
«The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
deep, Divine, divine being, drives, philosophy, seen, The Unseen, unseen
«There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
call, come into, hands, humanity, in this, In this World, kings, no end, philosophers, philosophy, political, political power, rulers, States, The State of the World, The Troubles, thus, till, troubles, truly, world power
«The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
good practice, important, objected, objects, philosophy, practice, pursuit, The Practice
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