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Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.
On all vital measures, measures necessary to protect you, the Democrats in Washington follow a simple philosophy: Just say no.
Someone asked me once what my philosophy of life was, and I said some crazy thing. I should have said, how the hell do I know?
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.
In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.
You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.
Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.
But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.
When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind.
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
...love rather than fear...this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope...surely there is hope for us all.
All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.
It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Our prayer will never grow obsolete, no matter what other ideas or philosophies may appear, or what other measures may be taken
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.
What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine.
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.
Passion, manners, and 80 ounces of beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn't, you'll be too hammered to remember.
If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.
My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.
I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.
There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from.
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
Heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear. No, heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just for us to find it here.
Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.