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“The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.”

Philosophy Danger Evidence Chiefs Selection

Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.”

Philosophy Errors Chiefs Overstatement

Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?”

World Years May Has Beens Two Philosophy Values Pleasure Genius Thousand Fame Doctrine Sensuality Chiefs Thousand Years Reproach Duration Calumny

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.”

People Kind States Philosophy Government Chiefs Rejects Anarchist Objections Epitome

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.”

“My chief 'success philosophy' is, 'Give people every opportunity to say "Yes" to you'.”

People Giving Philosophy Success Opportunity Chiefs

Author:Robert Holden

“It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for some brilliant stroke, some lucky discovery, or the advent of some superman, has been the chief gift of science to social philosophy.”

Doe Has Beens Philosophy Social Waiting Effort Progress Genius Lucky Discovery Ideals Organization Brilliant Chiefs Strokes Advent Organised Cumulative

Author:William Wickenden

“The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.”

Philosophy Results Secret Influence Benefits Arise Chiefs Application Indirect Insensible

Book:Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary

Source: Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary