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“Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.”

Should Philosophy Should Have Living Better

Author:Compay Segundo

“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.”

“One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.”

Should Philosophy Quality Novel Five Thousand Hundred Should Have Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.”

World Should Art Philosophy Young History Should Have

Book:Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

Source: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

“Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.”

Should Philosophy America Chance Should Have Ohio

Author:John Kasich

“My philosophy is making a movie is difficult enough and I just feel as if you should have a really good time when you do make films whether it's a drama or a comedy.”

Ifs Feels Should Enough Philosophy Film Difficult Comedy Drama Should Have Good Times

Author:Will Packer

“In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.”

People Should Philosophy Sides Differences Party Clear Victory Should Have Institutions Agreement Ireland Northern Ireland

Author:John Hume

“The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.”

“Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.”

Should Philosophy College Economics Should Have Looking Back Pursued

Author:Dan Quayle

“I do think that an understanding of contemporary work in the cognitive sciences has a profound effect on how one views the workings of the mind. It doesn't work the way we pretheoretically think it does. Such an understanding, of course, should have a large effect on one's views in philosophy of mind, but also in epistemology.”

Thinking Way Should Mind Doe Philosophy Courses Understanding Views Effects Should Have Profound Contemporary Cognitive Epistemology Cognitive Science

Author:Hilary Kornblith