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«Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life»
«Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.»
Author: Gottfried Leibniz
| About:
Philosophy
«Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.»
Author: Nikolai Berdyaev
| About:
Philosophy
«Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Doubt,
Existence,
Philosophy,
Reason,
Thought
| Keywords:
Cogito, ergo, sum
«Be anchored to some ideal, philosophy or cause that keeps you too excited to sleep»
«Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
arises, irrelevant, larger, portion, seemingly, shown, vast
«A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
agree, appeared, LED, obviously, philosophers
«Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy»
«Do not think of how big the universe is, it will merely hurt your head.»
«Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Boredom,
Evil,
Philosophy,
Self-Awareness
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