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It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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perspective
philosophers
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Isaac Asimov |
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Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this. Socrates: How so, Plato? Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is a sculptor. Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they have no need to be reminded. Plato: That is correct. Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.
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catholic-author
christian
citizens
civil-liberty
free-country
freedom
freedom-of-thought
gadfly
liberty
philosophers
philosophical
philosophy
plato
socrates
thought-provoking
wisdom
words-of-wisdom
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E.A. Bucchianeri |
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Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.
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dialectics
education
greatness
hypatia-of-alexandria
knowledge
learning
murder
philosophers
skills
superiority
suppression
women
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Iain Pears |
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As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.
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existentialism
philosophers
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.
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elric-of-melnibone
eternal-champion
imperfection
opposites
paradox
peace
philosophers
soothsayers
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Michael Moorcock |
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Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.
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philosophers
talk
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Philip K. Dick |
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"Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t," thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don't go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t."
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philosophers
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.
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illusions
philosophers
poets
truth
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Fernando Pessoa |