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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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Discontent is the seed of ethics.

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

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

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... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.

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

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

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There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.

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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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Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

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

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Poetry is devil's wine.

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Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

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He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

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With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

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We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

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