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Philosophy

«Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute»
«Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.»
«Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek»
«Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously»
«Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.»
«Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it»
«Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.»
«Philosophy is doubt»
«Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.»
«Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.»

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