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Walt Whitman: “A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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Kahlil Gibran: “Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh....
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Immanuel Kant: “All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
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Helen Hayes: “We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy and sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering I rush to them. They will give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.
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H. L. Mencken: “Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
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Paul Tillich: “Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater: “There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
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Mark Twain: “Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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George Santayana: “The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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A. Eustace Haydon: “It is at once evident that a religion which is able to make vital connection with a world-view based on the principles inherent in evolution, democracy, and science will be a new thing under the sun.
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Corliss Lamont: “Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
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Douglas Adams: “He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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John D. Rockefeller: “I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Mary Ritter Beard: “Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.
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Baruch Spinoza: “I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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John Adams: “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
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Henry Ward Beecher: “The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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H. L. Mencken: “Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
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Cicero: “There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
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Immanuel Kant: “Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Ambrose Bierce: “Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Bertrand Russell: “Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.
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William James: “If a man's good for nothing else, he can at least teach philosophy.
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William James: “Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
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William James: “Pragmatism asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?’”  more
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John Dewey: “In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.”  more
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Mark Twain: “All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.”  more
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Freda Adler: “Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
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George Bernard Shaw: “A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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John W. Gardner: “The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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