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“Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.”

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Book:Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

“Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.”

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Book:Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

“I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.”

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Author:Pete Seeger

“But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct.”

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Author:Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

“There is a tide in the affairs of men”

“Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.”

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Book:Moral and Political Philosophy

Source: Moral and Political Philosophy

“Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.”

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Book:Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”