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“The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.”

Said War Political Sides Healing Tears Philosophical Hunger Our Society Vietnam Threatened Memorial Disagreement

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are inexhaustible. They are celebrations of the ordinary, compelling reactions to philosophical elitism about "the good life". I hope to examine both of them further, doing more justice to Joycean comedy than I did in my "invitation" to the Wake, and trying to understand how the extraordinary stylistic innovations, particularly the proliferation of narrative forms, enable Joyce to "see life foully" from a vast number of sides.”

“When Apollo 13 appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel, and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.”

Way Needs Mean Earth Opportunity Sides Space Huge Philosophical Apollo Space Travel Apollo 13

Author:Ron Howard

“I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching that itch we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it. That's the philosophical side.”

Thinking Trying Next Sides Philosophical Good Things Species Following Horizon Compulsion

Author:Ron Howard

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”

Life Inspirational Sides Despair Philosophical Existentialism Existential

Book:Nausea

Source: Nausea

“First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.”

Firsts Would Be Spiritual Political Sides Position Philosophical Currents

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.”

Reading Sides Philosophical Debate Gaga

Book:The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

“We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious: do good because it is God's will, out of love of God; 3) a human: do good because it will promote your happiness, out of self-love; 4) a political: do good because it will promote the welfare of the society of which you are a part, out of love of society having regard to yourself. But is this not all one single principle, only viewed from different sides?”

Humans Different Self Character Law Political Sides Religious Principles Four Self Love Morality Philosophical Regard Sake Gods Will God Love Welfare Different Sides

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.”

Sides Philosophical Bored Boredom Bores Reverse Fascination Being Bored Funny Boredom

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.”

Ifs Giving Made God Three Sides Philosophical Two Sides Triangles Three Sides

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.”

Two Philosophy Sides Philosophical Noses Skeptic

Author:Robert Breault

“Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature of man and animals, and their relations to external objects; whoever would establish, on the intellectual and moral functions, a solid doctrine of mental diseases, of the general and governing influence of the brain in the states of health and disease, should know, that it is indispensable, that the study of the organization of the brain should march side by side with that of its functions.”

“My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.”

Sides Interest Philosophical Biology

Author:Richard Dawkins