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Letter "P" » Philosophy of
«The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.»
Author: Felix Adler
| About:
Ethics,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
affirmation, as such, hideous, morally, outcry, per se, Philosophy of, respected, revered, violated
«The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.»
Author: Giuseppe Mazzini
(Founder)
| Keywords:
antecedent, antecedents, association, Association of, Philosophy of, regeneration, The Republic, vouchsafe, vouchsafed, vouchsafes
«Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people»
«The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.»
«There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
American history, celebrated, copy, dominates, duplication, European, full-scale, infrequently, in full, Philosophy of, preserved, scale, The European
«The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
generation, government in, one generation, Philosophy of, school, the next, The school
«Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.»
«The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
aspersion, aspersions, cast on, common man, Philosophy of, resents, Strangers
«The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next»
«Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Envy,
Failure,
Ignorance,
Misery,
Philosophy,
Socialism,
Virtue
| Keywords:
creed, gospel, Gospels, inherent, Philosophy of, sharing, socialism
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