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“Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy.”

World Philosophy Speak Terrible Concepts Philosopher Professors Academic Explosives

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.”

Philosophy Speak Orientation Assessment Generalities

Book:Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology

Source: Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology

“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”

People Mind Humans Art Philosophy Speak Known Originals Poetry Is Human Mind Outlets

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“I have argued that a religion or a philosophy cannot speak about facts of the world - if it does, it is now or will eventually be wrong - but it can and should speak about the relevance and ranking of facts and observations.”

Ifs World Should Doe Philosophy Facts Speak Observation Relevance Ranking

Author:Erik Naggum

“When I speak of tantric yoga, I'm speaking of a type of yoga that is best practiced by persons who live in society. It's a yoga for the last yuga.”

Persons Philosophy Lasts Speak Type Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to”

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Author:Iris Murdoch

“If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientists, or only to jurists, or priests, or any other special class.”

Ifs Thinking Philosophy Speak Class Special Scientist Philosopher Priests Jurists

Author:Abraham Kaplan

“The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments. But he has to speak about his results also to non-physicists who will not be satisfied unless some explanation is given in plain language. Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be the criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.”

“In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules ," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy .”

“Philosophers feel a little more cautious about letting down their technical guard lest the general public doesn't recognize their special credentials. It's the fact that philosophy is of general interest that, paradoxically, keeps philosophers from wanting to speak in a way that's accessible to the general public.”

Way Feels Littles Philosophy Facts Speak Interest Special Philosopher Cautious General Public Credentials

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.”

Men Philosophy Speak One Man Metaphysics Another Man

Author:Voltaire

“When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.”

Knows Mean Doe Philosophy Speak

Author:Voltaire

“Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'”

Men Sometimes Philosophy Speak Common Common Man Usage Mystique

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.”

Matter Philosophy Speak Natural Divine Valuable Enigma Natural Philosophy

Author:Plato

“When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words have meaning, regardless of our particular faith or moral philosophy. They appeal to common standards we all are expected to understand and accept, standards without which we could not live any common life at all.”

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Book:Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

“I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?”

People Should Philosophy Evil Speak Memories Students Good Things Invoke Evil Things

Author:Elie Wiesel

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