Philosophic Quotes - Page 6

• A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Virginia, America, Independence

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• The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Stupid, Army

  War and Peace bk. 9, ch. 11 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

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• To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Adventure

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• What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Fearless

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