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«If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.»
Author: Abigail Adams
(First Lady, Writer)
| About:
Heroism,
Women
| Keywords:
heroes, philosophers, statesmen
«I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.»
Author: Christopher Hampton
| Keywords:
consulted, deceit, distilled, get away, moralist, moralists, Novelists, philosophers, pleasure principle, strictest, virtuosi, virtuoso, wonderfully
«Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| About:
Mothers,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
instinctive, philosophers
«I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.»
«Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle / the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.»
Author: Karl Popper
| Keywords:
avoidable, benevolent, dictatorship, initiative, in the main, modest, philosophers, public policy, realistic, recognized, replace
«Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
deception, philosophers, protesting
«It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| About:
Humor,
Reason
| Keywords:
involved, perceptions, philosophers, significant, sort out, surprised
«Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
| About:
Angels,
Dancing,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
argued, centuries, cheek, Cheek to Cheek, dancing, philosophers, pin, pinned, pin up, The Pin
«Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
go along, infuriate, infuriates, infuriating, philosophers
«Immateriality of the soul, philosophers who have mastered their passions. What matter could do that?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
immateriality, mastered, philosophers
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