The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.
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The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
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How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
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For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
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