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“The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.”

Mind Doe Philosophy Care Religion Known Knowing Particular Universal Unity Theme Vedanta

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.”

Ifs Men Matter Philosophy Care Life Philosophy Institutions Take Care

Author:Ralph Adams Cram

“But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.”

Needs Mind Ends Reason Philosophy Care Christian Christianity Example Concepts Salvation Errors Satisfaction Satisfied Distress Deserving Depravity

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age; they must take care of their Bibles, that they be not mutilated or curtailed by lawless criticism; they must take care of their theology, that it be not perverted by false philosophy; and they must take care of their pulpits, that they be not occupied by heretical, unspiritual, or incompetent ministers.”

Philosophy Care Age Views Objects Criticism Following Take Care Theology Doctrine Ministers Orthodoxy Evangelical Incompetent Pulpit

Book:An Earnest Ministry the Want of the Times

Source: An Earnest Ministry the Want of the Times

“The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been satisfied. He no longer cares for the exceptional, the monstrous, the marvelous and deformed. He looks through and beyond the gilding, the glitter and gloss, not only of things, but of conduct, of manners, theories, religions and philosophies. He sees clearer. The light no longer shines in his eyes.”

Men Looks Long Has Beens Philosophy Light Eye Care Theory Fairs Shining Curiosity Satisfied Manners His Eyes Old Man Marvelous Exceptional Discernment Monstrous Glitter Gloss Jugglers

Book:Miscellany

Source: Miscellany

“Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.”

Persons Self Philosophy Care Able Abandon Self Control Tantra Fixation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.”

World Mean Philosophy Care Religious Tradition Don't Care Sensual Dogmatic Tantra Religious Traditions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.”

Ifs Writing Littles Philosophy Care Reading Sex Fiction Novel Violence Clothes Notes Guilty Description Plot Advancement Cliffs Advancing Feasting Reading Fiction

Author:George R. R. Martin

“Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.”

Should Philosophy Care Born Mankind Talent Increase Add Misery Philosopher Possessed Economist

Book:Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world

Source: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world

“My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.”

Years Firsts Country Philosophy Care Poor Rich Protect Happenings Weak Western Greed Definitions Take Care Decent Hopeless Loser Indifferent Western Society

Author:John le Carre

“There is a new philosophy for weapons: it's more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It's terrible. When you have a band of guys on the battlefield, if someone is dead, he's dead. If someone is injured then they have to take care of him, so six people are busy.”

People Ifs Philosophy Care Guy Hurt Terrible Band Six Weapons Busy Take Care Expensive Injured Battlefields

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.”

Firsts Believe Humans Philosophy Care Universe Literature Healing Intellectual Health Care Make Sense Cosmology Faith Healing

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I always lov'd Precaution, and took care to avoid Dangers. But when a thing was past, I ever had Philosophy to be easie.”

Philosophy Care Past Danger Precaution

Book:THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES: CONTAINING The Most Valuable PLAYS Which Have Been Acted on the LONDON STAGE.. AMPHITRION. By John Dryden, Esq. ; BUSY BODY. By Mrs. Centlivre ; BOLD STROKE for a WIFE. By ditto ; BEAUX STRATAGEM. By Mr. Farquhar ; COMMITTEE. By Sir R. Howard

Source: THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES: CONTAINING The Most Valuable PLAYS Which Have Been Acted on the LONDON STAGE.. AMPHITRION. By John Dryden, Esq. ; BUSY BODY. By Mrs. Centlivre ; BOLD STROKE for a WIFE. By ditto ; BEAUX STRATAGEM. By Mr. Farquhar ; COMMITTEE. By Sir R. Howard

“I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."”

Writing Philosophy Care Law Song Let Me Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Chuck D

“Nixon was the one force in Montgomery for a number of years that made any effort in the direction of challenging the power structure. Ed Nixon's source of direction for that comes out of his relationship with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Care Porters and the Randolph philosophy of mass action. So, Ed Nixon really was the force that conceived of the boycott and drew up the original papers for the boycott.”

Years Made Philosophy Care Action Force Challenges Sleep Numbers Effort Source Paper Mass Originals Structure Brotherhood Papers Boycott Montgomery

Author:Ella Baker