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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
I think I'm more relaxed; I think I'm more philosophical. I don't get worried as much as I used to about things.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Philosophical ideas and sayings are great. They give us a little boost, a nudge in the arm, a fire in the belly.
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.
'Trek' is probably more cerebral and philosophical. 'Stargate' does seat-of-the-pants adventure and humor better.
Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
You can't be too concerned with the philosophical meanings of the character and how it will affect everything else.
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
A lot of the foundational philosophical approaches of tech leaders are actually all about decentralization of power.
Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.
In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
People are divided into two parts: some of them look for and cannot find anything, others find but are not satisfied.
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.
Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.
A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches
Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition?
I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people laugh.
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity
Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.
You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.