#phil

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#colonial #complex #knows #may #philistine

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different. ↗

— Joe Namath

#bit #could #different #get #i

I took all the philosophy courses I could. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#courses #i #philosophy #took

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#deepest #more #philosophy #than #wisdom

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service." ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #could #dance #dancer #divine

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#science #science

Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time. ↗

— Merlin Olsen

#best #defensive #intimidate #line #maybe

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. ↗

— William Osler

#become #foolishness #next #philosophies #tomorrow

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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