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David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair · Sir Arthur Eddington, The Philosophy of Physical Science

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. – George Bernard Shaw
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. – Clarence Thomas
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. – Aristotle
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. – Ayn Rand
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. – Anonymous
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness. – Dalai Lama
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. – Kahlil Gibran
Philosophy is the highest music. – Plato
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. – Henry David Thoreau
'I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. – Lin Yutang
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion. – Charles Peguy
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion. – Francis Bacon
All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain. – Epictetus
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. – Ernest Dimnet
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery. – Henry Miller
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. – Sydney Harris
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order. – Francis Bacon
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life. – Eugene Delacroix
Don’t see anything impossible! This simple philosophy will enable many things to be possible! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. – Margaret Hilda Thatcher
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy. – Margaret Thatcher
Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy. – Aldous Huxley
Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. – Clive Staples Lewis
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival. – C. S. Lewis
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. – C. S. Lewis

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