Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

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We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

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Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.

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A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

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The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.

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As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

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

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The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

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We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy.

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The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

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To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.

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

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The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.

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In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

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