My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
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There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
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Then vainly the philosopher avers That reason guides our deeds, and instinct theirs. How can we justly different causes frame, When the effects entirely are the same? Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride
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The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.. He must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified.. The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.
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Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
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My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
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This is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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By all means marry if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
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Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
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There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
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Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
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The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
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There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.
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What do they call a comedian who doesn't get any laughs? A philosopher
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The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it
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Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond
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According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
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