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“The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.”
Dale Carnegie
“It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived /forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“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
“Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.”
Plato
“Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all”
Albert Einstein
“Philosophy is common sense with big words.”
James Madison
“Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things”
Marcel Proust
“My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.”
Louisa May Alcott
“A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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