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Philosophy Quotes
"I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at."
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"Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing."
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"I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men."
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"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all."
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"Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less."
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"I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study."
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"The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic."
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"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."
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"You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch."
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"Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco."
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"The Bible is God's book of promises, and, unlike the books of men, it does not change or get out of date."
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"The feet of the Christian need to tread the narrow path that the Savior trod, keeping in step with Him."
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"But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it."
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"The Bible teaches that a man who can control his tongue can control his whole personality."
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"God and God's Word are inseparable."
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"The superfluous is very necessary."
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"It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery, we build where monsters used to hide themselves."
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"Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike extinguished on the ground behind them."
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"The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it."
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"Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship."
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"Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?"
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"Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is."
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"You may give them your love but not your thougts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."
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"My philosophy is to make things that are important and to do them right."
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"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."
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"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."
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"Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows."
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"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy."
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"No book dropped from "up there". If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head."
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"Invisible things are the only realities."
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"If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us."
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"This just makes me know and understand that there is no one reality that suits all, just one that suits each of us."
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler."
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"All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.'I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all one's responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view."
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"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."
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"I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness. For man's everyday needs, it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness, that is, half or a quarter of the amount which falls to the lot of a cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century."
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"Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment."
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"The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."
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"Time is not something to be killed. Doing so suffocates a part of us, writing off part of our life that could, or rather should, be spent doing something meaningful."
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"That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way."
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"Relativism poses as humble by saying: "We are not smart enough to know what the truth is-or if there is any universal truth. It sounds humble. But look carefully at what is happening. It's like a servant saying: I am not smart enough to know which person here is my master-or if I even have a master. The result is that I don't have a master and I can be my own master. That is in reality what happens to relativists: In claiming to be too lowly to know the truth, they exalt themselves as supreme arbiter of what they can think and do. This is not humility. This is the essence of pride."
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"When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow."
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"How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do."
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"Truth in, untruth out. Seek thus, within-without."
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"Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else."
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"I have patience in all things " as far as the antechamber."
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"Ignorance was bliss."
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"In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism."
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