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Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.

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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

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'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.

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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

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The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

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The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.

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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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PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

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O philosophy, you leader of life.

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I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.

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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

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I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

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Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

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The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

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He does not seek glory - yet people respect him.

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Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

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Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'

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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

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