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"As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring a flea's foot and marveling at a midge's humming, he learned nothing about the affairs of ordinary life."
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Desiderius Erasmus
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"Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve."
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James A. Froude
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Philosophers and Philosophy
"The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study."
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Georg Hegel
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"I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds."
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William James
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Philosophers and Philosophy
"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to !. What may I hope?"
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Immanuel Kant
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Philosophers and Philosophy
"If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind."
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Philosophers and Philosophy
"When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers."
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Walter Lippmann
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Philosophers and Philosophy
"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."
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H. L. Mencken
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Philosophers and Philosophy
"Philosophy is doubt."
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Philosophers and Philosophy
"Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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