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“Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.”

“Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.”

Sometimes Problem Poetry Fun Philosophical Terror Poetry Is Existential Grappling

Author:Gwen Harwood

“Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.”

Men Has Beens Stills Sometimes Facts Belief Findings Harmony Philosophical Philosopher Strikes Inquiring

Book:The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

“But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water.”

Sometimes Philosophy Water Gone Baby Ought Philosophical Baths

Author:Aloysius Martinich

“Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.”

Heart Sometimes Reason Reality Jesus Christ My Heart Jesus Christ Argument Philosophical Assured

Author:Daniel Webster

“I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have sometimes troubled philosophers in the past. It's taken me several decades to work out my own philosophical agenda, and it is wide.”

Different Sometimes Philosophy Past My Own Half Taken Century Philosophical Philosopher Work Out Wide Decades Range Agendas Fashionable

Author:Philip Kitcher

“When the religious principles, like the philosophical, are translated into reality, sometimes the reality forces violence on you, and there is no escape from it, and then I don't think it's something you should try to hide your face from.”

Thinking Should Trying Sometimes Reality Faces Force Religious Principles Violence Philosophical Your Face

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the questions. Sometimes these failed solutions are scientific, and sometimes they are religious, and sometimes they are based on what is called plain common sense.”

People Sometimes Religious Common Missing Offers Solutions Philosophical Common Sense Features Peculiar Philosophical Questions

Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“Sometimes I'll put a lie for philosophical reasons, and sometimes to make the story shorter.”

Sometimes Reason Lying Philosophical

Author:Todd Snider

“Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.”

Way Long Sometimes Philosophy Order Knowledge Philosophical Distance Long Distance Distance Relationship

Book:At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and the Zoo Story

Source: At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and the Zoo Story

“The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.”

World Way Needs Believe Sometimes Motivation Language Parent Protect Philosophical Ass Kicks Pleasant Pardon Protect You Stand Up For Yourself Feeling Down

Author:Queen Elizabeth II

“No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.”

Thinking Sometimes Doubt Deserve Philosophical Intuition No Doubt Minimum

Author:Jerry Fodor

“When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.”

Source: Course of the History of Modern Philosophy

“The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.”

Love Sometimes States Problem Would Be Culture Love Is Disease Messages Philosophical Victim Profound Solve Contemporary Toms Contagious Paralysis Incessantly Imbecility

Author:Quentin Crisp