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  I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Sad, Real Friends

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Change, Real Friends

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• You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Healing, Enlightenment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.51, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Philosophy is the art of living.

  Plutarch

  Art, Art Of Living

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• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Educational, Words Of Wisdom

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Freedom, Work, Vision

  "Mad about Physics : Braintwisters, Paradoxes, and Curiosities". Book by Christopher Jargodzki, 2001.

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• Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

  Democritus

  Motivational, Science, Reality

  Diogenes Laertius, vol.9.

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• Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

  Aristotle

  Truth, Philosophical, Science

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

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  Ram Dass

  Respect, Philosophical, Knowing

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• An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

  Albert Camus

  Life Changing, Mean, Intelligent

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

  Gottlob Frege

  Science, Analysis, Half

  Attributed in "Mathematics as grammar: 'Grammar' in Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics during the Middle Period" by A. A. B. Aspeitia, Indiana University, (p. 25), 2000.

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• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Philosophy is common sense with big words.

  James Madison

  Medicine, Common Sense, Liberty

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• Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Butterfly, Wish, Caterpillars

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• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Science, Add

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.55, Knopf

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• The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

  William James

  Philosophical, Certain, Clash

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism: Human Understanding”, p.2, 谷月社

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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• Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Men, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Spiritual

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p.52), 1990.

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• To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosopher, Problem, Solve

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Hate, Lying, Dark

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• Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Opposites, Fundamentals

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.14, Verso

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• Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

  Robert Nozick

  Political, Liberty, Fiscal Policy

  "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" by Robert Nozick, (p. 169), 1974.

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• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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