#philosophy

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found. ↗

— Walpola Rahula

#cogito-ergo-sum #existence #existentialism #god #humanity

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton) ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be. ↗

— William Feather

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Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value. ↗

— Sidney Hook

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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go? ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#inspirational #inspirational