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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

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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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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

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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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Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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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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PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution - they knew no more of the matter than he.

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Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

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Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

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

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

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It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

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