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RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

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I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

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All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

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Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.

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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

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Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

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Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.

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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.

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Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

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Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

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That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

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