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“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.”

Ifs Knows Philosophy Wealth Money Know How Stones Philosopher Poor Richard Frugality

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.”

Philosophy Spirit Fall Divine Stones Plant Agency Accord Divine Power

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other hand, abstract belief is largely impossible; it is the concrete, the actuality of the cup, the candle, the sacrificial stone, which hardens belief; the statue is nothing until it cries, the philosophy is nothing until the philosopher is martyred.”

Matter Philosophy Hands Might Belief Impossible Cry Stones Philosopher Cups Abstract Candle Concrete Statues Exotic Actuality Martyred

Author:Shirley Jackson

“The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.”

Art Philosophy Perfect Sun Stones Calendars Summary Aztec

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.”

Ifs Philosophy Seems Spiritual Effects Stones Philosophical Physics Observers Observing

Book:An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth

Source: An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth

“I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off.”

People Believe Philosophy I Believe Stuff Five Movement Stones I Believe In Rolling Linked Rolling Stones Dave Philosophic Just Believe

Author:Patti Smith

“I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.”

Philosophy Felt Views Changed Stones

Book:If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

“In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning of a natural philosophy. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.”

Philosophy Science Natural Brother Stones Temporary Newton Stepping Stones Hares Julius Natural Philosophy Principia

Author:Augustus William Hare