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Socrates: Come then, wrap yourself up, and having given your mind play with subtilty, revolve your affairs by little and little, rightly distinguishing and examining.
Strepsiades: Ah me, unhappy man!
Socrates: Keep quiet; and if you be puzzled in any one of your conceptions, leave it and go; and then set your mind in motion again, and lock it up.
Strepsiades: (in great glee). O dearest little Socrates!
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The interminable discussions between idealism and materialism, between nominalists and spiritualists on the one hand, and the realists or sensualists on the other hand, as to whether the idea was produced by the world or the world by the idea, and which of the two was the cause or the effect -- this discussion, I say, forms the essence of philosophy. Its mission was to solve the antithesis between thought and being, between the ideal and the material.
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And if we are asked, "Where the pursuit of trifling accommodations should stop, in order that a man may devote himself entirely to the higher engagements of life?" we may answer, "That it should stop where it is."
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My studious disposition, my sobriety, and my industry, gave my family a notion that the law was a proper profession for me; but I found an unsurmountable aversion to every thing but the pursuits of philosophy and general learning...
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When from this we have fixed all the rules of conduct, we are philosophers: When we have reduced these rules to practice, we are sages.
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Men cannot leap the great gaps, but ideas can.
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...the waking state is like a dream and that the 100-year lifespan is nothing more than one nighttime...
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...the wisest and best men in all ages had agreed in giving the preference, very greatly, to the pleasures of intellect...
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...the philosopher will have the quality of gentleness.
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It is to the poets, then, not to the dogmatists, that we must look for solace; for, where knowledge is still unattainable, an aspiration is wiser than an assertion...
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A born philosophical head can give proof of itself as university philosopher or as village philosopher.
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Let not the faithful sorrow that he has no ear for the more fickle and subtle harmonies of creation, if he be awake to the slower measure of virtue and truth. If his pulse does not beat in unison with the musician's quips and turns, it accords with the pulse-beat of the ages.
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...because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.
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April 12, 2020 : Philosophy -- Added.
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