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“Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which we take it, theologies, philosophies, and ecclesiastical organizations may secondarily grow.”

Men May Mean Philosophy Feelings Asks Individual Grows Moral Divine Solitude Organization Relation Theology Ritual Evident

Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

“Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!”

Thinking World Book Philosophy Feelings Pleasure Practice Loneliness Taught Return Demand Lonely Simplicity Worthy Poetry Is Sentiments Spun Wordsworth Shunning

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“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

“I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality.”

Ifs Knows Philosophy Feelings Loss Emotional Digital Materiality

Author:Keanu Reeves

“The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who feeling inhimself an inclination to it, is yet so over-whelm'd with doubts and scruples, as totally to reject it. A true sceptic will be diffident of his philosophical doubts, as well as of his philosophical conviction; and will never refuse any innocent satisfaction, which offers itself, upon account of either of them.”

Men Wells Philosophy Feelings Study Doubt Offers Accounts Philosophical Satisfaction Refuse Conviction Innocent Rejects Skepticism Inclination Careless Scruples Sceptic

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.”

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Book:Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement

Source: Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement

“Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.”

“The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or Oscar Wilde, people who weren't losers but who didn't believe in the work ethic, and argued this thing about guilt or wrote philosophy about idleness.”

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Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the same feeling toward theologians that sportsmen cherish toward poachers.”

Philosophy Feelings Seems Philosopher Cherish Theologian Quarrels Sportsman Poachers

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.”

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Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Do not make Mistakes about Character. That is the worst and yet easiest error. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods. In dealing with men, more than with other things, it is necessary to look within. To know men is different from knowing things. It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.”

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Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns is obviously much different than how another student learns and so I've had to figure out how to get through to people honestly without hurting their feelings - which is no easy task just in the scope of being a human being, much less in the classroom, but which is something that is more important to me now than it was when I was 30 - and to show them a path to improving.”

“No offence to Hugh MacLennan, but you don't even have to know or understand any deep philosophy that's being espoused, you can just have the feeling of those words together, and that you know them and can sing along with that melody with your fist up in the air. It's a wild vehicle for sentiment, because it's so powerful on the musical front.”

Knows Philosophy Feelings Together Powerful Air Fronts Musical Melody Sentiments Vehicle Fists Offence Up In The Air

Author:Sarah Harmer