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“A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turns into positive results, which turns into a positive lifestyle. A positive life.”

Philosophy Action Turns Results Attitude Lifestyle Positive Attitude Positive Life Positive Results

Book:The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

Source: The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

“In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.”

Way Art Different Philosophy Helping Pain Turns Different Ways

Book:The Consolations of Philosophy

Source: The Consolations of Philosophy

“It is the duty of all who make philosophy the entertainment of their lives, to turn their thoughts to practical schemes for the good of society, and not pass away their time in fruitless searches, which tend rather to the ostentation of knowledge than the service of life.”

Philosophy Turns Life Philosophy Duty Entertainment Practicals Schemes Passing Away Ostentation

Book:The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer

Source: The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer

“The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover larger portions of it. Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.”

Humans Kind Littles Philosophy Turns Natural Perfect Results Moral Ignorance Weakness Observation Spite Portions Blindness Metaphysical Endeavour Elude

Book:Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

“Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.”

Philosophy Problem Turns Force Understanding Common Source Ultimate Function Preserves Nevertheless Elementals Pseudo

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.”

World Art Philosophy Eye Turns History Wise Letters Passing Passings Pauses Being Wise Patron

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Whoso turns his attention to the bitter strifes of these days and seeks a reason for the troubles that vex public and private life must come to the conclusion that a fruitful cause of the evils which now afflict, as well as of those which threaten us, lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schools of philosophy, have crept into all the orders of the state, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.”

“There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!”

World Mind Philosophy Turns Imagine Philosopher Sense Of Humor Leisure Places In The World Inquiring

Book:The Red Lamp

Source: The Red Lamp

“The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.”

Humans Philosophy Turns Results Weakness Observation Spite Blindness Endeavour Elude

Book:Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding ... Second edition. With additions and corrections

Source: Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding ... Second edition. With additions and corrections

“There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts.”

Source: The Ascent of Man

“There is no one kind of thing that we 'perceive' but many different kinds, the number being reducible if at all by scientific investigation and not by philosophy: pens are in many ways though not in all ways unlike rainbows, which are in many ways though not in all ways unlike after-images, which in turn are in many ways but not in all ways unlike pictures on the cinema-screen--and so on.”

Ifs Way Kind Different Philosophy Turns Numbers Perception Screens Perceive Cinema Pens Different Kinds Investigation Rainbow

Author:J. L. Austin

“Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies the physical scientist with new instrumental means for discovering and interpreting phenomena of nature, which in their turn afford foundations of fresh generalisations, bringing gains of permanent value into the great storehouse of natural philosophy.”

“There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this "something" as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation: This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.”

Humans May Philosophy Moments Seems Remember Turns Path Childhood Events Particular Theory Who I Am Human Life Urges Peculiar Sooner Or Later Signals Fascination

Author:James Hillman

“The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether old or the very latest and revolutionary, and turn to artistically realized philosophy.”

Inspirational Art Philosophy Turns Literature Modern Painting Revolutionary Daily Life Realistic

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.”

“Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.”

Men World May Philosophy Turns Poverty Grace Proud Misery Contempt Consolation Pardon Sullen Sturdy

Author:Richard Cecil

“Whoever has the desire to pursue philosophy correctly should look to Nature's Archetype in every matter, so that by taking up Ariadne's thread in her intricate labyrinth he may keep himself safe and secure from wrong turns and deviant paths.”

Should Looks May Matter Philosophy Desire Turns Path Safe Pursue Secure Thread Intricate Labyrinth Archetype Wrong Turn Deviants Ariadne

Author:Athanasius Kircher

“In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.”

Philosophy Hands Turns Imagination Magic Genius Pure Engineering

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.”

World Should May Philosophy Beautiful Form Turns Meditation Ocean Fairs Fruit Contemplation Discourse Crops Splendor

Author:Plato

“The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.”

People Men Made Ends States Philosophy Political Order Turns Strange Hundred Performances Boxes Educated Sat Insult Opera Execution Weeping Political Philosophy Imprisonment Moscow

Author:Tom Clancy

“Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the rightful ratio of labor to rest will establish a certain work ethic. That work ethic - our attitude about the amount of labor we are willing to commit to future fortune - will determine how substantial or how meager that fortune turns out to be.”

Hard Philosophy Certain Turns Attitude Quality Our Lives Willing Hard Work Amount Activity Ethics Labor Fortune Determine Commit Work Ethic Ratios

Author:Jim Rohn

“There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.”

Mind Real Philosophy Turns

Author:Will Durant

“Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.”

People Doe Stills Philosophy Dies Turns Culture Born Views Attitude Built Determined Collapse Milieu

Book:The Problem of Method

Source: The Problem of Method

“Best part of my job is fulfillment. When I see that, that we're creating value, that we're helping improve people's lives, and we benefit from it, so it's a system of mutual benefit. Our philosophy's working. That's what turns me on. That's what keeps me going.”

People Philosophy Helping Jobs Values Turns Benefits Creating Fulfillment Mutual Turn Me Creating Value Mutual Benefit

Author:Charles Koch

“If you think about it, in the most dramatic moments of its history Europe has always turned to philosophy and, in turn, philosophy has interrogated itself about the destiny of Europe as something that touches its very essence.”

Ifs Thinking Philosophy Moments Turns Destiny Europe Essence Dramatic

Author:Roberto Esposito

“The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It has been so in the time that preceded the fall of the Roman Empire, when Augustine of Hippo delineated the features of a new spiritual civilization; in the age of religious wars, when Descartes and Hobbes established the principles of modern science and politics; and at the turn of the French Revolution, interpreted by Kant and Hegel as an event destined to change the history of the world.”