James Joyce Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Poetry Quotes

The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

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No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

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Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

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Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

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