“ Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ”
- William Winwood Reade- Copy
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“ The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. ”
- Georg Hegel- Copy
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“ I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms. ”
- Edgar Quinet- Copy
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“ Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ The best generals I have known were… stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes — love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt… ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ We hope to make clear the ways in which dialectical and metaphysical issues necessarily figure in the subject of motivation. Our speculations, as we interpret them, should show that the subject of motivation is a philosophic one, not ultimately to be solved in terms of empirical science. ”
- Kenneth Burke- Copy
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“ Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. ”
- Mel Brooks- Copy
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“ The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life not only decently, but dignifiedly. ”
- George Borrow- Copy
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