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“If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.”

Author:Plato

“We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.”

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Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.”

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Author:Christopher Titus

“Passion, manners, and 80 ounces of beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn't, you'll be too hammered to remember.”

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Author:Christopher Titus

“What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem.”

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Author:Russell Banks

“Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels.”

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Author:Tom Robbins

“If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.”

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Author:Ram Dass

“But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the most willful and (for want of a better word) magical in its logic, even if it has been in fashion for a couple of centuries or more.”

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Author:David Bentley Hart

“The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you believe the premisses you have to or must believe the conclusion, some arguments do not carry much punch, and so forth. A philosophical argument is an attempt to get someone to believe something, whether he wants to beleive it or not. A successful philosophical argument, a strong argument, forces someone to a belief.”

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Book:Philosophical Explanations

Source: Philosophical Explanations

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

“In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within the solar system, or with any other portion of space and time. . . . This brings us to a second characteristic of philosophical propositions, namely that they must be a priori. A philosophical proposition must be such as can neither be proved nor disproved by empirical evidence. . . . Philosophy, if what has been said is correct, becomes indistinguishable from logic as that word has now come to be used.”

“On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?”

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Author:John Walter Bratton

“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.”

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Author:Stephen Cole Kleene

“If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to hell. Similarly, a nationalist believes his or her nation is better or more advanced—and a racist believes that an inherent difference between each race make his or her ethnicity superior. All of these ideologies spawn the hate, philosophical disagreements, and prejudices that have been the catalysts for various atrocious acts throughout history.”

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Author:David G. McAfee

“The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.”

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Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.”

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Author:Manuel Puig

“...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite, divine and ineffable dwelling place (cf. Jn. 14:2) will be ours to enjoy. For this is what our sainted teacher said in his famous philosophical aphorism: 'Then we shall know as we are known' (I Cor. 13:12), when we mingle our god-formed mind and divine reason to what is properly its own and the image returns to the archetype for which it now longs.”

“Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.”

“If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.”

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Author:Epictetus

“If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.”

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Author:Epictetus

“If you wish to be a writer, write.”

Ifs Writing Wish Philosophical

Author:Epictetus

“If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.”

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Author:Epictetus

“If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.”

Ifs Believe Desire Philosophical Be Good Wicked

Author:Epictetus

“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”

Source: Principal Doctrines

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