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A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Ambrose Bierce - [Philosophers and Philosophy]
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
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Ambrose Bierce - [Philosophers and Philosophy]
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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Samuel Butler - [Philosophers and Philosophy]
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
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St. Thomas Aquinas - [Philosophers and Philosophy]
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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
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Virginia Woolf - [Philanthropists]
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Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
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Anita Brookner - [Philosophers and Philosophy]
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In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning.
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Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac - [Philosophers and Philosophy]
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Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Mel Brooks - [Philosophers and Philosophy]
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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John Burroughs - [Philosophers and Philosophy]
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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Oscar Wilde - [Philanthropists]
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