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Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

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Be the change that you want to see

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

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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".

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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

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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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The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

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Presume not that I am the thing I was.

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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

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

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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

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That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

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Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.

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Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

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The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

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