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Letter "T" » The Philosopher
«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 one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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chief, concern, occupy, philosopher, skills, The Chief, The Philosopher
«And therefore the Philosopher [Aristotle] says in Metaphysics VI that good and evil, which are objects of the will, are in things, but truth and error, which are objects of the intellect, are in the mind.»
«There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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bubbling, defies, from the heart, rigid, significance, spontaneously, The Philosopher, without expression
«Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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advance, assurance, assured, developed, gradually, indubitably, organic, protozoon, The Philosopher, unfortunately
«I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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The Philosopher
«Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
The Philosopher
«Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The case of the philosopher.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
ass, perish, philosopher, The Philosopher, throw off, tragic
«All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Science
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hierarchies, hierarchy, hierarchy of, obligation, of value, sciences, The Philosopher
«Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.»
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