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Browsing Quotes With Tag: philosophy (27)

  • Keep his mind off the most elementary duties by directing it to the most advanced and spiritual ones… You must bring him to a condition in which he can practice self-examination for an hour without discovering any of those facts about himself which are perfectly clear to anyone who has ever lived in the same house with him or worked in the same office.

    Speaker: C.S. Lewis
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    Posted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:25 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: character, philosophy, screwtape-letters, temptation

  • “I said that the truth is found more often in music,” he repeated, “than it is in books of philosophy.”
    “What is the truth?” I asked him. I didn’t really want to know. I was trying to hold up my end of the conversation. I was trying to be clever.
    “The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,” he said. “It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men – it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone – the noblest man alive or the most wicked – has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.”

    Speaker: Gregory David Roberts
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    Posted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:04 PM
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    Tags: character, love, music, philosophy, progression, shantaram, truth

  • “Wise words; but O, when wisdom brings no profit,
    To be wise is to suffer…” Teiresias

    Speaker: Sophocles
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    Posted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:19 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: oedipus-rex, philosophy, wisdom

  • “I think you’ll find,” said Dr. Breed, “that everybody does about the same amount of thinking. Scientists simply think about things in one way, and other people think about things in others.”

    Speaker: Kurt Vonnegut
    Source: Cat's Cradle
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    Posted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:09 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: philosophy, science

  • A person who goes to a philosopher should carry away with him something or other of value every day; he should return home a sounder man or at least more capable of becoming one. And he will: for the power of philosophy is such that she helps not only those who devote themselves to her but also those who come into contact with her.

    Speaker: Seneca
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    Posted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:47 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: character, education, philosophy, western-world

  • Self-contented as [the philosopher] is, then, he does need friends – and wants as many of them as possible – but not to enable him to lead a happy life; this he will have even without friends.

    Speaker: Seneca
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    Posted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:41 PM
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    Tags: friendship, individualism, philosophy, western-world

  • To win true freedom you must be a slave to philosophy.

    Speaker: Seneca
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    Posted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:27 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: education, freedom, philosophy, western-world