#phil

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers. ↗

— Maimonides

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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

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Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.' ↗

— Bam Margera

#fun #have fun #i #just #life

In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. ↗

— William James

#clash #extent #great #great extent #history

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. ↗

— William James

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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! ↗

— William James

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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#chords #compared #conversation #love #may

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#philosophy #transparency #whole

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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