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“Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.”

“Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my interpretation, achieving liberation in yoga means learning how to be present with everything that arises, whether it is pain or pleasure, sadness or joy, failure or success. And to be present with whatever arises, I believe we must not only be aware of what is arising but we must also be able to see all things that arise as equal, with detachment.”

Source: Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee

“Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone have been able to create or preserve it. It is the outcome of an objective relationship between the individual and the space he occupies, between the consumer and the resources at his disposal.”

Has Beens Able Individual Space Civilization Resources Philosophical Possession Invention Objectives Consumers Preserves Outcomes Conquest

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.”

“Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.”

Source: His Master's Voice

“If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.”

Ifs Believe Soul Able Philosophical Rational

Author:Saint Augustine

“Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.”

Men Has Beens Able Causes He Man Philosophical Latin

Book:The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Metrical Index

Source: The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Metrical Index

“Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.”

Source: Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley

“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”

Men Inspirational Ideas Age Able Time Creatures Philosophical Raises Every Man

Author:Voltaire

“It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.”

Able Time Violence Failing Youth Philosophical

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.”

Long Problem Able Faces Christianity Century Products Buddhism Hundred Philosophical Realistic Heritage Speculation Antichrist

Book:The Antichrist

Source: The Antichrist

“You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.”

Able Order Products Essentials Essence Philosophical

Author:Jonathan Ive

“To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.”

Firsts Art Able Political Philosophical Endure Aspire

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.”

Ifs Knows Hard Philosophy Able Belief Theory Prove Claims Philosophical Hesitation Prove It

Author:Stephen Cole Kleene