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Letter "P" » Philosophy
«The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy, he'll make the family begin to seem crazy.»
Author: Dr. John Talbott
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
caused, kid, mothers, schizophrenic, The Family, to seem
«To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,»
Author: Horace Walpole
| About:
Action,
Common sense,
Happiness,
Philosophy,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
bless, duties, respectfully, submit
«We have limited knowledge, or else science and philosophy would not be necessary.»
«The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational - the powers of reason are s»
Author: Steve Allen
(Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer)
| About:
Mind,
Philosophy,
Problems,
Reason
| Keywords:
bizarre, formal, high-minded, irrational, untrained
«The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| About:
Change,
Philosophy,
World
| Keywords:
interpreted, philosophers, the point, various
«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 man of science is a poor philosopher.»
«Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally discredited and abandoned...WAR! So that is prophecy, and everyone know that is truth. And it came out of the mouth of Rastafari.»
Author: Bob Marley
(Composer, Guitarist, Singer)
| About:
Philosophy,
War
| Keywords:
abandoned, came out, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, inferior, prophecy, Rastafari
«To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Philosophy,
Simplicity,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
dictates
«When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy»
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