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"If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts."
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"I had a lovers quarrel with the world."
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"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
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"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that."
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"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."
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"It is better to think positive than dwell on negative thoughts."
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"A healthy attitude is contagious, let others catch it."
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"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."
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"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."
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"I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are."
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"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
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"At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost."
Philosophy
"Only as an individual can man become a philosopher."
Man
"Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work."
Life
"The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me."
Life
"As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity."
History
"Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history."
History
"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."
Past
"Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action."
Knowledge
"The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought."
History
"Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it."
Thought
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