#philosophic

Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway. ↗

— Richard Finney

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The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort. ↗

— William Gilbert

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There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs. ↗

— Asa Gray

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And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#done #draw #finally #get #give

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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My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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