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«To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.»
«War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.»
«The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato»
«The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings / woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.»
«Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.»
«The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine»
«There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.»
«There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.»
«Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing. There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.»
«There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.»

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