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“No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.”

Littles Eye Evil Taken Increase Philosophical Strikes Wickedness Good Against Evil

Source: Politics

“I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action. Religious or philosophical conversion of each man and woman is simply not going to work; that strategy ignores the problem of power, the fact that millions of people have a vested interest in statism and are not likely to give it up.... Education in liberty is of course vital, but it is not enough; action must also be taken to roll back the State.”

“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

“In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research in the writings within the Judaic and Christian traditions and I was astonished to find in those writings philosophical thought of great power and sophistication. These writings completely blew away all my opinions about what I had taken to be the irrationality or immaturity of religious ideas, opinions which were and still are fashionable in many intellectual and literary circles today.”

Writing Today Christian Religious Opinion Teach Taken Intellectual Tradition Philosophical Western Fashionable Great Power Sophistication Immaturity Irrationality

Author:Jacob Needleman

“We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.”

Ifs World Inspirational Should Ideas Language Taken Should Have Philosophical Fewer Disputes English Language

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author

“There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”

Source: Essays in Aesthetics

“None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.”

Firsts Wish Taken Proud Philosophical Flattery

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.”

Money Taken Philosophical

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.”

Stills Enemy Taken Overcoming Philosophical Prison Chains Jail

Book:Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill

Source: Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill

“He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.”

Ends Philosophy Form Taken All Things Eternity Philosophical

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of the alleged facts which are investigated by Psychical Researchers. I am wholly impenitent about this. The scientists in question seem to me to confuse the Author of Nature with the Editor of Nature; or at any rate to suppose that there can be no productions of the former which would not be accepted for publication by the latter. And I see no reason to believe this.”

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