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“Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.”

Art Philosophy Form Culture History Youth Blessed Speed Boat

Author:Epicurus

“Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.”

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Book:The Documents in the Case

Source: The Documents in the Case

“In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.”

People Philosophy Youth Produce Logic Mythology Decadence

Book:Story of Philosophy

Source: Story of Philosophy

“Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.”

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Book:The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)

Source: The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)

“I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.”

World Ideas Philosophy Youth Exposed

Author:Michel Onfray

“In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.”

Men World Mind Philosophy Age Action Youth Shapes Reflection Aspect Affair Determine Practicals Impression Resolution

Book:Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer

“When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.”

World Philosophy Gone Youth Ideals Philosophical Paint Grey Abstraction Reconciliation Freshness Ideal World

Book:On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy: Introductory Lectures

Source: On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy: Introductory Lectures