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  The map is not the territory.
 ~philosopher sayings by Alfred Korzybski

  Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
 ~inspirational sayings about Philosophy quotes by La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678

  Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
 ~philosopher quotes by Edward Albee

  To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
 ~famous quotes about Philosophy by Friedrich Nietzsche

  To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.
 ~philosopher sayings by Lord Chesterfield

  I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.
 ~philosopher sayings by Jean Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.
 ~inspirational sayings about Taxes quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

  Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.
 ~philosopher quotes by George Santayana

  You cannot step into the same river twice.
 ~famous quotes about Philosophical by Heraclitus, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives

  Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
 ~philosopher sayings by Thomas Carlyle

  [T]hings are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.
 ~philosopher sayings by Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea

  I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.
 ~inspirational sayings about Worry quotes by Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)

  The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money
 ~philosopher quotes by Author Unknown

  One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, Is it half full or half empty? So I drank the water. No more problem.
 ~famous quotes about Philosophical by Alexander Jodorowsky

  If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water? And eventually he dies of thirst.
 ~philosopher sayings by Shelley Berman

   One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
 ~philosopher sayings by Alvin Toffler

   It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
 ~good sayings about School by Mark Twain

   It is not a fragrant world.
 ~philosopher quotes by Raymond Chandler

   The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
 ~motivational quotes about Action sayings by Vance Havner

   The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.
 ~philosopher sayings by George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

   We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest.
 ~philosopher sayings by Martin H. Fischer

   Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the naturals, the ones who somehow know how to teach.
 ~good sayings about Teachers by Peter Drucker

   Yeah, he's in pain except between the first and ninth innings
 ~philosopher quotes by Dave Bristol

   You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.
 ~motivational quotes about Food sayings by Earl Wilson

   Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.
 ~philosopher sayings by Charles Sumner

   I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking.
 ~philosopher sayings by Jean Cocteau

   You can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamn contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you'll see something, maybe.
 ~good sayings about Driving by Edward Abbey

   Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
 ~philosopher quotes by S.J. Perelman

   They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk.
 ~motivational quotes about Television sayings by Gene Roddenberry

   Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.
 ~philosopher sayings by Edgar A. Suter

   Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say
 ~philosopher sayings by Unknown

   In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
 ~good sayings about Books Reading by Stéphane Mallarmé

   He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.
 ~philosopher quotes by Marcus Aurelius

   If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease
 ~motivational quotes about Get Well Soon sayings by Robert Ingersoll

   For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death.
 ~philosopher sayings by Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990

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