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Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. ↗


— Albert Camus


#eternity #justify #non-violence #only #philosophy

As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of the strangest kind- of flesh turned to atoms which drove before the wind, of stars flashing in their hearts, of outwardly the scattered parts of the vision within. In those mirrors, the minds of men, in those pools of uneasy water, in which cloud forever and shadows form, dreams persisted; and it was impossible to resist the strange intimation which every gull, flower, tree, man and woman, and the white earth itself seemed to declare (but if you questioned at once to withdraw) that good triumph, happiness prevails, order rules, or to resist the extra ordinary stimulus to range hither and thither in search of some absolute good, some crystal of intensity remote from the known pleasures and familiar virtues, something alien to the processes of domestic life, single, hard, bright, like a diamond in the sand which would render the possessor secure. Moreover softened and acquiescent, the spring with their bees humming and gnats dancing threw her cloud about her, veiled her eyes, averted her head, and among passing shadows and fights of small rain seemed to have taken upon her knowledge of the sorrows of mankind. ↗


— Virginia Woolf


#virginia-woolf #dreams

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. ↗


— Stokely Carmichael


#himself #man #philosophers #question #raise

There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal. ↗


— Brad Carson


#appeal #change #choosing #climate #climate change

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure. ↗


— Emanuel Celler


#broad #did #friendly #his #humor

I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years. ↗


— David Chalmers


#been #cognitive #consciousness #had #i

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists. ↗


— Brian Ferneyhough


#aspects #british #certain #days #deeply

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life. ↗


— John Chrysostom


#both #highest #life #philosophy #point

'Never look back' is my philosophy. ↗


— Helen Clark


#look #never #philosophy

People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy. ↗


— Constantine Karamanlis


#came #decide #earth #kept #make






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