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«Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.»
Author: Juan Antonio Samaranch
| About:
Belief,
Philosophy,
Sports
| Keywords:
cooperation, educational, factor, inalienable, peoples, precedes, promoting, sport
«Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.»
«One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.»
Author: Frank Zappa
(Composer, Guitarist, Satirist, Song Writer)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
agree, favorite, only if, philosophical, tenet, tenets
«No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Freedom,
Happiness,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
accord, accordance, compel, conception, e'en, enjoys, everyone else, fit, For each, Happy ending, i.e., infringe, infringing, I E, Others The, pursue, reconciled, reconciles, reconciling, similar, The Happy Ending, welfare, workable
«Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Life,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
constantly, contain, intonation, intonations, Philosophy of, telling
«One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
conceive, implausible
«On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Knowledge,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
aware, modestly, on the one hand, on the other hand
«One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Choice,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
choices, choice of words, expressed, ultimately
«Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise»
«Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| About:
Change,
Equality,
Intelligence,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
extremely, resist
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