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“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.”

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Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“Above all else, philosophy ought to aim for clarification - of the self, one's place in the world, and the ways we make meaning. Philosophy, when practiced well, can be useful. It can enable us to grapple in productive ways with questions about the meaning of life and who I am and how I want to be in the world.”

World Way Want Wells Self Philosophy Ought Aim Who I Am Meaning Of Life Productive Places In The World Clarification

Author:Peg O'Connor

“Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.”

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Book:Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: The German Text of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung

Source: Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: The German Text of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.”

Mean Art Philosophy Artist History Aim Stranger Artificial Fine Arts Famous Artist Inspirational Artist Fine Artists Painting Art Painting And Art Artificial Life

Book:Yoknapatawpha, images and voices: a photographic study of Faulkner's County, with passages from classic William Faulkner texts

Source: Yoknapatawpha, images and voices: a photographic study of Faulkner's County, with passages from classic William Faulkner texts

“Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.”

Philosophy Feelings Young Certain Aim

Book:The Clarionet, the Dead Boxer, and Barney Branagan. [From

Source: The Clarionet, the Dead Boxer, and Barney Branagan. [From

“Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.”

Mean Ideas Philosophy Whole Character Age Teaching Example Youth Particular Bears Aim Embrace Old Age Related Poetry Is Phenomenon Conception Platonic

Book:The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)

Source: The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)

“Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.”

Philosophy Body Activity Philosophical Aim Doctrine Logical Clarification

Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.”

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Author:Thomas Huxley

“An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.”

Art Philosophy Achieve Absolutes Aim

Author:Al-Farabi

“Because ethics is fundamentally about questioning the ends, the goals and aims of our actions, we must come back to the rules and ask why. So we must return to the philosophy of law, the raison d'etre and the point of what we're asked to do. It's not easy, it's very demanding and it needs intellectual courage.”

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

“When yoga is understood in its totality, it is neither a form of exercise, nor is it an esoteric philosophy or religion; it is a practical and comprehensive science for realizing life's ultimate aims.”

Philosophy Form Realizing Exercise Understood Yoga Ultimate Aim Practicals Comprehensive Totality Esoteric

Author:Rod Stryker

“A little exposure to the philosophy of many Eastern spiritual traditions - including yoga - could easily lead you to conclude that if you aspire to achieve goals in the material world you cannot fulfill yourself spiritually, or vice versa. However, since all of us, at some level, long for fulfillment in all aspects of our life, it is essential to understand that these two aims are not mutually exclusive.”