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“The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.”

States Young Time Youth Philosophical Intoxication

Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”

Men Inspirational Age Young Humorous Philosophical Witty Young Man Maxims Nicomachean Ethics Unbecoming

Author:Aristotle

“When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.”

Trying Reality Young Philosophical Methodical

Author:Randall Jarrell

“it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.”

Young Youth Harder Philosophical

Book:My Days

Source: My Days

“So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these peculiar questions of everybody - important people, young men, slaves - questions that had to do with ultimately what's the life that's worth living. And Plato was one of the young men who hung around him, a very aristocratic young man, came from a very old, important family.”

People Men Kind Important Young Middle Philosophical Asking Slave Young Man Peculiar Hung Urban Plato Worth Living Athens Gorillas Hanging Around Aristocratic Gadflies

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.”

People Ifs Ideas Country Philosophy Home Young Natural My Own Quality Opinion Prejudice Intelligent Philosophical China Chinese Creeds Sophistication Homesick Naivete

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of the mother for the young are not produced by reasoning, but by feeling, and this faculty exists not only in humans but in most living beings.”

Humans Feelings Pain Young Mother Differences Animal Philosophical Reasoning Faculty Tenderness

Author:Maimonides

“When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.”

Believe Facts Young Mother Dies Father One Day Philosophical Crisis Mortals

Author:Lana Del Rey