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“Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.”

Giving Philosophy Values Names Understanding Ambition Discovery Slave Philosopher Pursuit Contemplation Understanding Life

Author:Pythagoras

“Every business is manmade. It is a result of individuals. It reflects the personalities and the business philosophy of the founders and those who have directed its affairs throughout its existence. If you want to have an understanding of any business, it is important to know the background of the people who started it and directed its past and the hopes and ambitions of those who are planning its future.”

People Ifs Knows Want Important Philosophy Past Individual Understanding Results Existence Personality Ambition Affair Planning Backgrounds Founders

Author:Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

“Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.”

Reason Philosophy Ambition Damp

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever govern nations or Parties, against their vanity, their Pride, their Resentment, or Revenge, or their Avarice, or Ambition. Nothing but Force and Power and Strength can restrain them.”

Long Philosophy Force Nations Interest My Own Party Opinion Human Nature Pride Morality Ambition Revenge Vanity Resentment Avarice Power And Strength Force And Power

Book:John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

Source: John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

“The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.”

Hard Philosophy Moving Grows Hard Work Succeed Ambition Moving Forward

Author:Frank Lowy

“Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than itself- and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once... [one] lets himself or herself be informed by the process and ambition of philosophy.”

Humans Philosophy Process Human Beings Our Lives Offers Ambition Ordinary Bases Foundation Experts Outrageous Recompense

Author:Stanley Cavell