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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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Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

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A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

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A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

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None but blockheads copy each other.

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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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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

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All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

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The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

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

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I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.

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The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

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Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.

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History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

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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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The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

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