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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Art Experience Aesthetic enjoyment Pattern
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the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

Only simplicity Be trusted Complexity
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We think in generalities, but we live in details.

We think Generalities Live
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Very beginning His education Child Experience
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

New idea Looks crazy At first
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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.

Great dreamers Never fulfilled Always transcended
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There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Whole truth Treat them Plays Devil
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

About zero Use it The operation Daily life
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Intelligence Quickness Apprehend Ability
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A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

Science That hesitates To forget Founders
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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling

Life Complex Its expression Percipience
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

The business Future Be dangerous Science
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

Rationalism An adventure Clarification Thought
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From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

The moment Birth In action Taking thought
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Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.

Religion What An individual does His solitariness
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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Education Movement Darkness Light
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Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Error Enemy Truth Treatment
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Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

Commitment Word Invented Motives
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I have no desire ... to preach a high-minded and merely edifying version of love

Desire Preach Edifyng Love
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Failure.Books Vision Belief
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There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

Real Education Respond Display
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One has to have the experience of really believing before one can have the thrill of liberation.

Experience Believing Thril Liberation
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The faith in God and the belief in miracles are closer to the truth than any scientific explanation

Faith God Belief Miracles
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Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason.

Openness Virtue Good Reason
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Librally Educated Resist Answers
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The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Success Society Freedoms Members
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Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being
Poverty Lack Money
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Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

Poverty Deprivation Opportunity
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Empowering women is key to building a future we want

Empowering Women Key Building
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I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

Believe Problems World Inequality
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A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

Society Pareto optimal Perfectly Disgusting
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Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

Imparting Education Enlightens Giver
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While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.

While Cannot Live History
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Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

Sometimes Lack Substantive Freedom
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The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

Lack Economic Freedom Reason
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There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

Muslims Kinds Idea Closing
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Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

Gender Inequality One Problem
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I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.

Believe Education Massive Potential.Transforming
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[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

Globalization Enriched World Scientifically
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I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.

Think Many Abilities Do things
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Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering sentient beings and brings them great joy.

Change Life Reality Dwell
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Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

Freedom Primary Ends Development
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Debate Masculine Conversion Feminine
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Success Sweet Long Struggles
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

First Man Yourself Inspire
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

We Heaven Ruins Failures
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Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
Success Sweet Long Delayed
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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

Love Key Heaven Enter
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Time is the best critic.

Time Best Critic
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Ignorant One Malady
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