#phil

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. ↗

— Albert Camus

#man #mankind #philosophy #nature

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him." "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#amusing #philosophy #tamora-pierce #stupidity

I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia. ↗

— Richie Allen

#except #first #i #left #philadelphia

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#blossom #enables #into #life #marvel

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#images #into #never #novel #philosophy

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#great #history #must #philosophy #the history of

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#convinced #i #language #main #obstacles

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#most #mothers #philosophers

I listen to some of the comments on WIP - they're playing parts of the press conference - and I can see where people would read into things. But if anyone was at the press conference, I think would sense how much I enjoyed Philly and how I loved working for those people. ↗

— Larry Brown

#comments #conference #enjoyed #how #i