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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people. ↗

— James Howell

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To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. ↗

— David Hume

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Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. ↗

— David Hume

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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. ↗

— David Hume

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The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application. ↗

— David Hume

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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