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"When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth." Albert Einstein 4.3333 average rating  
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." Albert Einstein 4.9000 average rating  
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools." Albert Einstein 4.4000 average rating  
"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order." Will Durant 5.0000 average rating  
"When people ask me to compare the 20th century to older civilizations, I always say the same thing: "The situation is normal." Will Durant  
"The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages." Will Durant 3.0000 average rating  
"The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers." Will Durant 5.0000 average rating  
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." Will Durant 3.8000 average rating  
"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them." Buckminster Fuller 4.4000 average rating  
"Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing." Ambrose Bierce 5.0000 average rating  
"These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair." Bertrand Russell 4.0000 average rating  
"Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matters; second, telling other people to do so." Bertrand Russell 5.0000 average rating  
"Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure." Bertrand Russell 4.8333 average rating  
"Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines." Bertrand Russell  
"To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do." Bertrand Russell 4.5000 average rating  
"To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize." Blaise Pascal 5.0000 average rating  
"Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit." Author Unknown 3.0000 average rating  
"The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word "fuck." Author Unknown 4.5000 average rating  
"Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel." Author Unknown 5.0000 average rating  
"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection." Richard Bach 5.0000 average rating  
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