Philosophy Quotes – Set 5 – 2017

#1

Truth, like a torch, the more it’s shook it shines. (Discussions on Philosophy)

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#2

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can’t talk yourself out of.

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#3

I intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy.

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#4

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. (Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840)

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#5

Boxing got me started on philosophy. You bash them, they bash you and you think, what’s it all for?

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#6

One thinks of French philosophy that it aspires to the condition of literature or the condition of art, and that English and American philosophy aspires to the condition of science. French philosophy, one thinks of as picking up an idea and running with it, posibility into a nearby brick wall or over a local cliff, or something like that.

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#7

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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#8

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

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#9

The propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character – that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. [Ayer was a logical positivist]

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#10

Ultimately it was stifling because it sought to embrace in its philosophy every facet of existence [on Marxism]. That, of course, is its attraction to many

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#11

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

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#12

Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make you timid. [Philosophy of life for a monarch]

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#13

My philosophy, like colour television, is all there in black and white.

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#14

The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted.

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#15

When I was younger I thought that if prayer worked the CIA would have nuclear prayer jammers around the world.

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#16

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. Memories and Milestones.

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#17

God is the Doer, You are the instrument.

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#18

[W]hen people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

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#19

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was.

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#20

I want to keep an open heart and not judge him.

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#21

It is easy to build a philosophy–it doesn’t have to run.

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#22

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

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#23

When people come together, go to each other’s country, and watch a conflict being played out on the field of sport, as opposed to the field of battle… then why can’t that same spirit, that same philosophy, infect other aspects of relations? [Hoping India and Pakistan would develop their relationship off the pitch]

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#24

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. Spinster.

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#25

You can blame me when things go wrong if you praise me when things go right.

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#26

Facts often contradict with truths.

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#27

Philosophy clips an angel’s wings .. and unweaves the rainbow.

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#28

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

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#29

I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. The Upton Letters.

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#30

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.

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#31

The Greek philosophers began by asking fundamental questions about the nature of life, the universe, and thought itself. They soon discovered that the answers to these questions were not forthcoming, nor likely to be.

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#32

A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

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#33

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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#34

Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

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#35

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

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#36

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

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#37

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

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#38

The nihilism I was taught in philosophy class nearly destroyed me.

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#39

In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.

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#40

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory — the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

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#41

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

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#42

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

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#43

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates — but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

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#44

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

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#45

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

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#46

Look, I really don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.

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#47

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

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#48

Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle — the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.

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#49

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

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#50

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.