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«I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.»
«I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively»
«I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
| About:
Philosophy,
Religion,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
disturber, established, established religion
«It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| About:
Philosophy
«It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Christianity,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
associated, dogma, exacts, historically, modern philosophy, rigid, supernaturalism
«In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Admiration,
Ignorance,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
admiration, adoration, fill up, offspring, The Offspring
«I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
God,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
Descartes, dispense with, fillip
«It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same, except that one happens to be seen in a celestial radiance and the other in a dusky and lurid glow.»
«It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite of all false philosophy, is sweet to every human heart; but as eminence can be but the lot of a few, patience of obscurity is a»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Honor,
Philosophy,
Praise
| Keywords:
confer, eminence, natural philosophy
«It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless. (William Butler Yeats described his first meeting with a Hindu philosopher at Dublin)»
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