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“The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.”

“Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.”

Philosophy Assuming Preaching Propositions

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always assumes that an opponent is competent and able to inflict damage with just one blow.”

Art Philosophy Able Art Is Assuming Blow Opponents Damage Just One Martial Arts Disciple Competent Uncommon Unthinkable Exchanging

Book:The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment

Source: The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment

“If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and power of government to interfere with individual rights or the free market, is a lot different from an ethnic-nationalist, atheistic, and socialist program of genocide and international aggression, you should use this rule of thumb: If someone isn’t advocating the murder of millions of people in gas chambers and a global Reich for the White Man you shouldn’t assume he’s a Nazi and you should know it’s pretty damn evil to call him one.”

“The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.”

Ifs Thinking Important Philosophy Assuming Afterlife True You

Author:Stephen Fry

“As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This is very important, for no work can be rightly done without honesty and incorruptibility.”

Important Self Done Philosophy Honest Honesty Assuming Architect Courteous

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.”

Way Philosophy Home Life Is Social Deserve Assuming Social Life Home Life Working Life Kaizen

Author:Masaaki Imai

“There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.”

People Knows Way Philosophy Certain Numbers Groups Type Fundamentals Assuming Obvious Assumption Epoch Philosophic

Book:Science and the Modern World

Source: Science and the Modern World

“There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can live a worthwhile life. The second is whether it's possible to fulfill the roles of both serious artist and upstanding citizen. It seems to me that philosophy can dissect both questions, by delineating clearly the anatomy of the good life and the structural conditions of the roles.”

Firsts Two Philosophy Seems Artist Roles Issues Conditions Serious Citizens Assuming Ancient Philosopher Good Life Worthwhile Elites Privileged Anatomy

Author:Philip Kitcher