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“A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practise it.”
“Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
“In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed that life can be fixed up. In Europe the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a...”
“Every day look at a beautiful picture read a beautiful poem listen to some beautiful music and if possible say some reasonable thing.”
“When you have only two pennies left in the world buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.”
“Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an errant jade on a journey.”
“Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings Conquer all mysteries by rule and line Empty the haunted air the gnomed mine -Unweave a rainbow.”
“Adversity's sweet milk philosophy.”
“Be a philosopher but amid all your philosophy be still a man.”
“The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.”
“One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.”
“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”
“Queen of arts and daughter of heaven.”
“In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.”
“Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.”
“There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
