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4485 Philosopher Quotes

If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.
Him Irritate Opponent Temper
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Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

Along Beer Day Discover
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Affair Less Love Love Affair
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Come He See Sees
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Both Cook Dinner Insult
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

About Author Bad Good
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Fiction Literature Luxury Necessity
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Brave Brave Men Men Middle
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Been Christianity Difficult Found
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Being Burden Camel Free
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Art Beautiful Consists Every
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Altogether Bed Ceiling Colored
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Between Book Deal Difference
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Almost Contradiction Courage Desire
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Best Complete Contempt Education
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Another Education Generation Passes
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Expensive Golf Marbles Playing
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Always Body Destroying Difficult
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Architecture Castle Clouds No Rules
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

A Good Man Call Example Five
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Anything Lost Love May
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Country Foot Foreign Foreign Land
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

About Being Education Instructed
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Common Common People Compulsory Deprive
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Always Anything Sensational Simplification
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A yawn is a silent shout.

Shout A Silent Yawn
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Down Look Parade Rain
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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Acting Architecture Arrived Filled
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Been Christian Difficult Found
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Any Feel God I Can
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Almost Always Large Loose
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Earth Garden Heaven Human
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Problem See Solution That
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Advice Away Best Doing
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Become May Merely More
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Act Believe Falls Fate
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
Because Drink Happy Miserable
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There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Does Eye Go Heart
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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Before Catching Miss Only
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Aristocracy Badly Democracy Educated
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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Case Country Desperate Drunk
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Always Badly Being Governed
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Alive Consists Dead Journalism
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Condemned Past Remember Repeat
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Country Eyes Feet His
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Learn Mind Something Wisest
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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
Intelligence Quickness Seeing Things
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Because Consistent Easier Fact
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Believe Between Dualism Facts
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Actual Artist Consenting Dream
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