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I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at.


Chris Bailey


#any #associated #band #been #best

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.


Liberty Hyde Bailey


#eventually #explain #how #may #philosophy

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.


Leonardo da Vinci


#maxims #philosophy #science #experience

The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard.


Sebastian Barry


#death #life #philosophical #thoughts #death

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.


Ferdinand Christian Baur


#dead #dumb #history #me #philosophy

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love


Hermann Hesse


#happiness #love #philosophy #death

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.


Julien Benda


#attached #man #merchant #much #nations

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.


Samuel Beckett


#intelligence #philosophers #poets #sense

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.


Baruch Spinoza


#established #how #i #i do #know

Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life.


René Descartes


#happiness #philosophy #purpose #thinking #beauty






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