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Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.


Hu Shih


#already #ancient #another #china #early

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?


Diogenes of Sinope


#feelings #hurt #philosopher #use #who

Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.


Ed Smith


#black #booker #business #business owners #entrepreneurship

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.


Wallace Stevens


#go #more #perhaps #philosophers #than

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.


Peter Frederick Strawson


#his #own #philosopher #predecessors #terms

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.


Morris Raphael Cohen


#adopt #been #certain #circumstances #determined

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.


Arthur Holly Compton


#also #civilization #cooperation #implicit #make

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.


James Weldon Johnson


#fabled #fortune #good #good fortune #labor

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.


Steven Levy


#looking #more #more and more #nation #philosophers

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.


Walter Mosley


#civilization #cradle #eastern #exceptions #few