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“I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.”

Years States Philosophy Night Dies Saws Feet Sticks Bridges March Stations Bus Nonviolence Beaten Montgomery Greyhounds Greyhound Bus

Author:John Lewis

“If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil. A juster philosophy might teach me rather to think that my eyes deceived me, and that the offer was not really what I conceived it to be.”

Ifs Thinking Men Should Philosophy Might Eye Teach Saws Offers Blind Wine Glasses Deceived Wine Glass

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere force of his personality. He was the most impressive living thing we saw in Egypt, not excepting two Pashas and a Bey. He was engaged with large philosophies, one could see that.”

Two Philosophy Force Saws Personality Mere Crowds Engaged Egypt Impressive Living Things Lanes Camels Cairo

Author:Sara Jeannette Duncan

“I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.”

Years Philosophy Film Study Saws Rocks Economics University Fantastic Australian Picnics Retrospective Australian Films Gallipoli Studying Economics

Author:Deborah Kara Unger

“I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.”

Philosophy Belief Lost Saws Bearable

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.”

Philosophy Saws Blessing Miracle Curse

Author:Sting

“When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes

“...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.”

“It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact, I became particularly aware if the dangers of speculation ... It's so much easier than digging out the facts. You sit in your office and build a system. But with my training in biology, I felt this kind of undertaking precarious.”

Ifs Want Kind Philosophy Facts Felt Saws Teaching Danger Easier Office Training Biology Speculation Digging Undertakings Precarious

Author:Jean Piaget

“The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.”

Mean Philosophy Saws Ads Idealism Nihilism Idealist Hegel

Author:Frederick C. Beiser