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“The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.”

“When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.”

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Book:On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy: Introductory Lectures

Source: On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy: Introductory Lectures

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”

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Author:Immanuel Kant

“I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.”

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Author:Ewan McGregor

“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing”

Love Life Real Reality Love Is Marriage Ideals Philosophical Real Things Antithesis Positive Marriage Short Love Happy Love

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?”

“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality”

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Book:Utilitarianism

Source: Utilitarianism

“But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.”

Simple Influence Ideals Philosophical Substance

Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

“The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.”

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Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman