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“In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.”

Way Trying Firsts Philosophy School Three Waiting Produce Succeed Draws Thirds Philosophical Victim Caught Following Seeds Thinker Thread Spiders Synthetic

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Some friendships in life sustain themselves only at a particular life stage, products of some mutual developmental problem to be resolved together, or of some external circumstance, like being housed in the same dormitory in boarding school. Others grow out of a deeper spiritual and philosophical affinity, which continues throughout life.”

Problem School Together Spiritual Grows Stage Particular Products Circumstances Philosophical Deeper Mutual Affinity Developmental Dormitory

Author:Jill Ker Conway

“As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and I've built on this based on my own aesthetics, as most do.”

School Individual My Own Training Built Philosophical Architecture Debate Visuals Discourse Aesthetics Refined

Author:Jimenez Lai

“In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the variety and dissension among the philosophical schools of antiquity.”

Thinking Facts School Philosophical Variety Antiquity Dissension

Author:Peter Adamson

“Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the Aristotelians but you have Scepticism, you have Stoicism, you even have a little bit of Epicureanism. And what happens after Plotinus is that everybody becomes a Neo-Platonist. So if we then go forward to the Islamic world for example, Plotinus is immensely influential, and Neo-Platonism becomes at least one major component of mainstream Islamic philosophy as well.”

“The only solution seems to be for government to toughen the vaccination laws and close the loopholes that allow people to opt out for philosophical and so-called religious reasons. The laws need to make clear: no shot, no school.”

People Reason School Religious Solutions Philosophical

Author:Emily Yoffe

“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.”

Life Inspirational School Learning Path Philosophical Yesterday Something New Naturalist

Author:John Burroughs

“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”

“You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes”

Knows School Know How Philosophical Disputes

Book:Morning Hours: Lectures on God's Existence

Source: Morning Hours: Lectures on God's Existence

“Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.”

Source: Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection