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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

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To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy.

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Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

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Poetry is devil's wine.

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The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

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Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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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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An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

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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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To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.

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Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

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No one should waste a day.

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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.

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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

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How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy.

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