Quotes: philosophy
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
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Denis Waitley
American motivational speaker, writer and consultant
1933-
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
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The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
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There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
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Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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