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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #phil




Sooner or later everyone behaves badly. Some of us are just better at it than others.


Kim Foster


#humor #philosophy #attitude

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.


Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #earth #french-riviera #humans #ivory-coast

In the sea of my emotions, his presence is like a pearl in the oyster. Very hard to locate, yet very precious and still beautiful.


Mehek Bassi


#breakups #experience #hard #hurt #life

Pain eventually leads to freedom.


Minhal Mehdi


#freedom

There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same great pattern enters both.


Plato


#man #philosophy-of-life #beauty

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.


Harshit Walia


#indian-fiction #inner-beauty #journey #life #philosophical

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.


Lao Tzu


#taoism #business

A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.


William Bailey


#philosophy #death

If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is fooling around--isn't it sort of ridiculous to go crawling around in the weeds, throwing knives and maybe getting yourself killed . . . and even losing the war . . . when you've got a real weapon you can use to win? What's the point in a whole lot of men risking their lives with obsolete weapons when one professor type can do so much more just by pushing a button?' Zim didn't answer at once, which wasn't like him at all. Then he said softly, 'Are you happy in the Infantry, Hendrick? You can resign, you know.' Hendrick muttered something; Zim said, 'Speak up!' I'm not itching to resign, sir. I'm going to sweat out my term.' I see. Well, the question you asked is one that a sergeant isn't really qualified to answer . . . and one that you shouldn't ask me. You're supposed to know the answer before you join up. Or you should. Did your school have a course in History and Moral Philosophy?' What? Sure--yes, sir.' Then you've heard the answer. But I'll give you my own--unofficial--views on it. If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cuts its head off?' Why . . . no, sir!' Of course not. You'd paddle it. There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy with an H-Bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an ax. War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him . . . but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing . . . but controlled and purposeful violence. But it's not your business or mine to decide the purpose of the control. It's never a soldier's business to decide when or where or how--or why--he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals. The statesmen decide why and how much; the generals take it from there and tell us where and when and how. We supply the violence; other people--"older and wiser heads," as they say--supply the control. Which is as it should be. That's the best answer I can give you. If it doesn't satisfy you, I'll get you a chit to go talk to the regimental commander. If he can't convince you--then go home and be a civilian! Because in that case you will certainly never make a soldier.


Robert A. Heinlein


#military #moral-philosophy #training #violence #war

I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.


Madam C.J. Walker


#giving-back #philanthropy-business #service #women #business






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