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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

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Philosophy begins in wonder.

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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

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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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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

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

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A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

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I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.

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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

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I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

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The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

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All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

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Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

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Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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