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To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Blaise Pascal
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. The Gita is one of the clearest and most comprehensive summaries of the spiritual thoughts ever to have been made.
Aldous Huxley
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.
Plato
Philosophy can make people sick.
Aristotle
One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?
For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
What wreath for Lamia? What for Lycius?What for the sage, old Apollonius?Upon her aching forehead be there hungThe leaves of willow and of adder's tongue;And for the youth, quick, let us strip for himThe thyrsus, that his watching eyes may swimInto forgetfulness; and, for the sage,Let spear-grass and the spiteful thistle wageWar on his temples. Do not all charms flyAt the mere touch of cold philosophy?There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:We know her woof, her texture; she is givenIn the dull catalogue of common things.Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine -Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile madeThe tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.4/bookid.1076/sec.2/
John Keats, Lamia (part ii), 181
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
William James
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
Bertrand Russell
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you
Socrates
Privilege is invisible to those who have it.
Michael Kimmel
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Henry David Thoreau
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
Kahlil Gibran
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy
Voltaire
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
