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Philosophy
«Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute»
Author: Erich Heller
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Philosophy
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immense, impressive, inflicted, philosophical, rock bottom, seated, systems, throne, uncomfortably
«Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
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Philosophy,
Wonder
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philosophic
«Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
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Angels,
Dancing,
Philosophy
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argued, centuries, cheek, Cheek to Cheek, dancing, philosophers, pin, pinned, pin up, The Pin
«Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Philosophy
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ingenious, unusually
«Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Philosophy
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from nowhere, leading, nowhere, roads, route, routed, routes
«Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Philosophy
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dispelling, dispels, excites, explored, studied, superficially, thoroughly
«Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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Philosophy,
Wisdom
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defined, rightly
«Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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Philosophy
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conversant, corrupts, elegant, meddled, meddles, modestly
«Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Philosophy
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pursuits, sublime, trivial