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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Ambrose Bierce

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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
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Ambrose Bierce

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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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Harold Pinter

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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
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Paul Gauguin

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Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
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Bertrand Russell

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Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
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Robert Zend

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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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Friedrich Nietzsche

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For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
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William Shakespeare

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I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full and scratch where it itches.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
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(Frederick II) Frederick The Great

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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg

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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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Iris Murdoch

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In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
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Thomas B. Macaulay

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Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
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Source Unknown

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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
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Proverb

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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
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Diogenes of Sinope

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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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John Burroughs

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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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Wallace Stevens

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Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
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Charles Dickens

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Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
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Joseph Roux

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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Seneca

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Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
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James A. Froude

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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