Oscar Wilde Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Thinking Quotes

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

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Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

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A king of infinite space

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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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Life's uncertain voyage.

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

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