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• Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception. Pornography is as addictive as cocaine or any illegal drug.

  James E. Faust

  Addiction, Drug, Deception

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• In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Communication, Civilization, Justice

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• There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There is no other possibility. Spontaneous generation was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others, but that just leaves us with only one other possibility... that life came as a supernatural act of creation by God, but I can't accept that philosophy because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.

  George Wald

  Believe, Years, Two

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• Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or at least the only thing about which we can have any knowledge. It follows that nature had to do its own creating, and that the means of creation must have included any role for God.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Mean, Creating, Roles

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• Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ... Only in this personal relationship with Christ, only in this encounter with the Risen One do we really become Christians... Therefore, let us pray to the Lord to enlighten us, so that, in our world, he will grant us the encounter with his presence, and thus give us a lively faith, an open heart, and great charity for all, capable of renewing the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Heart, Our World

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• Enough is as good as a feast.

  Thomas Malory

  Gratitude, Hunger, Enough

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• The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.

  Notah Begay III

  Golf, Want, Vices

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• It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering. Job makes it clear that simple companionship is what suffering people often crave - not a course in philosophy.

  Kathryn Lindskoog

  Jobs, Helping Others, Simple

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• Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been devoted to books and to learned pursuits. His brilliant mind was interested in every form of intellectual activity. Not only poetry but also philosophy, theology, astronomy, medicine and law all occupied his time.

  John Bagot Glubb

  Book, Islamic, Law

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• You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

  Alexander Pope

  Dream, Art, History

  Alexander Pope, Homer, Samuel Johnson (1830). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope, Esq: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.177

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• One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

  T. E. Hulme

  Doe, Definitions, Reason

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.77, Psychology Press

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• You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

  Maxim Gorky

  Hidden Meaning, Knows

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• The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object-Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Nature, Hero, Science

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• We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Simple, Christianity, Metaphysics

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.83, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Christianity is not a system of philosophy, nor a ritual, nor a code of laws; it is the impartation of a divine vitality. Without the way there is no going, without the truth there is no knowing, without life there is no living.

  Merrill C. Tenney

  Faith, Knowing, Law

  Merrill C. Tenney (1997). “John: The Gospel of Belief”, p.215, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Love, Forgiveness, Stupidity

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• If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Sisterhood, Thoughtful

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Ignorance, History

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• The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche considered that evolution presented a correct picture of the world, but that it was a disastrous picture. His philosophy was an attempt to produce a new world-picture which took Darwinism into account but was not nullified by it.

  R. J. Hollingdale

  Philosophical, Science, World

  R. J. Hollingdale (2001). “Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only half an hour at a time; but in many diligent half-hours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy. Green, the historian, tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Time, Honesty, Hero

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• In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

  Henri Lebesgue

  Philosophical, Math, Science

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• The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.

  D. Michael Quinn

  Moving, Technology, Issues

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• The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What is new is that Western science is slowly beginning to realize that some elements of that ancient lore might be correct.

  Dean Radin

  Ideas, Humanity, Elements

  Dean Radin (2009). “Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement in history has been led by one or just a few individuals with a small minority of energetic supporters.

  Leonard Read

  Libertarian Party, Liberty, Majority

  "How to Advance Liberty" by Leonard Read, mises.org. August 03, 2011.

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• [We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the Sacred Scriptures, teach us to be done by God: no more, than to say, That the balance of a Watch is moved by the next Wheel, is to deny that Wheel, and the rest, to be moved by the Spring; and that both the Spring, and all the other Parts, are caused to move together by the Maker of them. So God may be truly the Cause of This Effect, although a Thousand other Causes should be supposed to intervene: For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand.

  Nehemiah Grew

  God, Spring, Moving

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