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4485 Philosopher Quotes

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

Devilishly direct Direct relationship Nervous Prospect
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

Materialistic view Happiness Age starkly Revealed
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To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

Appreciate life Small moments Helps Made perfect
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Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.

Not everything Happens With reference About us
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An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.

An urgent Wish Guarantor Sound solution
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The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

The feeling No time Anything done Provides
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Love Without risk Impossibility War
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Love Politics Great figures Social engagement
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.

World See One experiences Point
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Evil Moment The strength True
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
Kind Serenity In love Almost
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Evil Interruption Truth Pressure
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Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

Love Only consist In failure Fallacious assumption
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

Have nothing Their discipline
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

Truth Subjective development Universal New
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In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

Improve democracy Necessary People Ironically proposed
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

In love Fidelity signifies Extended victory Randomness
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

Ethic Truth Complete opposite Communication
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Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

Sometime The people Can imagine Anything
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Science Differential equation Boundary condition
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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Computer Called intelligent Deceive Human
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The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

The idea Digital computers Machines Intended
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I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams.

Dream indicating Clearly Being hetero Enthusiasm
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I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.

Permanent relationship Feel inclined Reject anything Nature
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Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.

Like violence Feels good Human Deeply satisfying
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

Programming Skill Best acquired Practice
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Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.

Produce Programme Stimulate Adult mind
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields

May hope Machines Will eventually compete Men
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I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

Glad Be young Future Without wilderness
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There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

Are some Can live Wild things Cannot
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Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

Ethical behavior Right thing Watching Wrong thing
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We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Abuse land Commodity Belonging to We see
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Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

The mountain Lived Long enough Listen objectively
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We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

Shall never Achieve harmony Land Absolute justice
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The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

Last word Ignorance The man Who says
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All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

All conservation Wilderness Self defeating To cherish
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Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth?

Is education A process Trading awareness Things
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We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

All strive For safety Prosperity Comfort
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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

The penalties Ecological education One lives World
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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

Education Fear Is learning To see
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That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

Land Community Basic concept Ecology
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The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

Good life Any river Perception Its music
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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators... The land is one organism.

Harmony With land A friend Cherish
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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, the stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

A thing Right Preserve The integrity
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Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

Tell me Plat birthday Man Takes notice
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Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

Examine Each question Ethically Aesthetically right
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the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

Most fun Lies Seeing Studying
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never had there been so rare a day, or so rich a solitude top spend it in.
Never had So rare A day So rich
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.

Acts Creation Ordinarily reserved Gods
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

It requires Usual mind Undertake Analysis
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