quotes by topic Philosophy

" Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
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C. S. Lewis
Art , Friendship , Value , Philosophy , Survival
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" Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. "
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Edgar Allan Poe
Will , Experience , Truth , Philosophy
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" Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things. "
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Marcel Proust
Philosophy
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" The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature "
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Lafcadio Hearn
People , Philosophy , Literature
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" The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question "
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Want , Question , Philosophy , Peace , Discovery
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" What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle "
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy
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" Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language "
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language , Intelligence , Philosophy , Battle
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" Philosophy is not a theory but an activity "
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Theory , Philosophy
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" Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open "
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nothing , Philosophy , Open
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" The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war "
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Ludwig Von Mises
War , Philosophy
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