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  • Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of religion, it should be as Jesus says, "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret".
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Jesus Quotes , Philosophy Quotes
  • The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Lying Quotes
  • There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Children Quotes , Philosophy Quotes
  • My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship. My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river. Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Teaching Quotes
  • Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Past Quotes
  • White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Al Sharpton Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Pyramids Quotes
  • Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Father Quotes , Philosophy Quotes
  • A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Faith Quotes , Philosophy Quotes