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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. (Quote by - Roger Miller)

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

I doubt one could live in the darkness, but one could probably survive. (Quote by - Nathaniel LeTonnerre)

A timid question will always receive a confident answer. (Quote by - Lord Darling)

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)

In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed, that life can be fixed up. In Europe, the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents. (Quote by - Jonathan Miller)

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. (Quote by - Matsuo Basho)

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. (Quote by - Ludwig B rne)

There are some remedies worse than the disease. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

Eggs cannot be unscrambled. (Quote by - American Proverb)

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. (Quote by - Edward Albee)

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. (Quote by - Buddha)

What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. (Quote by - A. C. Benson)

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. (Quote by - Robert M. Pirsig)

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines. (Quote by - Gilbert Ryle)

A blind man in a dark room (Quote by - looking for a black hat which isn't there. (Quote by - Lord Bowen)

To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it. (Quote by - Augustus William)

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)

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