#phil

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#conservative #engaged #exercises #justification #man

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#been #cars #depression #during #garage

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#embraced #i #kind #like #philosophy

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers. ↗

— Maimonides

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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#evil #good #modern #nothing #philosophy

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

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