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philosophy

George Berkeley
No sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow reason but we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation; till at length, having wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just where we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn scepticism.
No sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow reason but we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation; till at length, having wandered through ma
Goethe
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Harold Robbins
Hemingway was a jerk.
Henry Mencken
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Karl Marx
Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
Leo Tolstoy
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Robert Zend
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Saint Augustine
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.
Socrates
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
An unexamined life is not worth living.
Stephen Hawking
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
Thomas Paine
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Winston Churchill
Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.
Yogi Berra
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.