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quote[num++] = "\"Philosophy is not a particular body of knowledge; it is the vigilance which does not let us forget the source of all knowledge.\" - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Signs";
quote[num++] = "\"Peril and profit in the cult of the genius - The belief in great, superior, fruitful spirits is not necessarily, yet nonetheless is very frequently associated with that religious or semi-religious superstition that these spirits are of supra-human origin and possess certain miraculous abilities by virtue of which they acquire their knowledge by quite other means than the rest of mankind. One ascribes to them, it seems, a direct view of the nature of the world, as it were a hole in the cloak of appearance, and believes that, by virtue of this miraculous seer's vision, they are able to communicate something conclusive and decisive about man and the world without the toil and rigorousness required by science.\" - Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human";
quote[num++] = "\"It's quite true what philosophy says, that life must be understood backwards. But one then forgets the other principle, that it must be lived forwards. A principle which, the more one thinks it through, precisely leads to the conclusion that life in time can never be properly understood, just because no moment can acquire the complete stillness needed to orient oneself backwards.\" - Søren Kierkegaard, Papers";
quote[num++] = "\"The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. is sure to be noticed.\" - Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death";
quote[num++] = "\"One expects philosophy to promote, and even to accelerate, the practical and technical business of culture by alleviating it, making it easier. But--according to its essence, philosophy never makes things easier, but only more difficult. And it does so not just incidentally, not just because its manner of communication seems strange or even deranged to everyday understanding.\" - Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics";
quote[num++] = "\"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. Esteem an honest man above a kinsman. Virtue is the same for women as for men...Wisdom is the surest stronghold which never crumbles away nor is betrayed.\" - Diogenes the Cynic, In Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers";
quote[num++] = "\"Plato saw [Diogenes] washing lettuces, came up to him and quietly said, 'Had you paid court to Dionysius, you wouldn't now be washing lettuces,' and with equal calmness, he answered, 'If you had washed lettuces, you wouldn't have paid court to Dionysius.'\" - Diogenes the Cynic, In Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers";
quote[num++] = "\"All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer seeing (on might say) to everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and bring to light many differences between things.\" - Aristotle, Metaphysics";
quote[num++] = "\"Idle talk is the possibility of understanding everything without previously making the thing one's own. If this were done, idle talk would founder; and it already guards agains such a danger. Idle talk is something which anyone can rake up; it not only releases one from the task of genuinely understanding, but develops an undifferentiated kind of intelligibility, for which nothing is closed off any longer.\" - Martin Heidegger, Being and Time";
quote[num++] = "\"Our passional nature not only lawfully may, but must, decide an option between propositions, whenever it is a genuine option that cannot be its nature be decided on intellectual grounds; for to say, under such circumstance, 'Do not decide, but leave the question open', is itself a passional decision - just like deciding yes or no, and is attended with the same risk of losing the truth.\" - William James, The Will to Believe";
quote[num++] = "\"Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but with the critical discussion of myths, and of magical techniques and practices. The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition in having two lawers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them. The theories are passed on, not as dogmas, but rather with the challenge to discuss them and improve upon them. This tradition is Hellenic.\" - Karl Popper, Science: Conjectures and Refutations";
quote[num++] = "\"For here is the chief and most confounding objective to excessive scepticism, that no durable good can ever result from it, while it remains in its full force and vigour...And though a Pyrrhonian may throw himself or others into a momentary amazement and confusion by his profound reasonings, the first and most trivial event in life will put to flight all his doubts and scruples, and leave him the same, in every point of action and speculation,w ith the philosophers of every other secti, or with those who never concerned themselves in any philosophical researches.\" - David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding";
quote[num++] = "\"If a human being is not to destroy this kindness and humanity in himself, he must be kind-hearted to the animals; for a man who acts with cruelty towards animals thereby becomes hardened even in his dealings with human beings. It is easy to judge the heart of a man from how he treats animals.\" - Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics";
quote[num++] = "\"Lacking strength, Beauty hates the Understanding for asking of her what it cannot do. But the life of the Spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself untouched by devastation, but rather the life that endures it and maintains itself in it. It wins its tuth only when, in utter dismemberment, it finds itself.\" - Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit";
quote[num++] = "\"My being-in-thw-world or my 'place in the sun', my being at hom, have these not also been the usurpation of spaces belonging tot he other man whom I have already oppressed or starved, or driven out into a third world; are they not acts of repulsing, excluding, exiling, stripping, killing? Pascal's 'my place in the sun' marks the beginning of the image of the usurpation of the whole earth.\" - Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics as First Philosophy";
quote[num++] = "\"For the eye must be adapted to what is to be seen, have some likeness to it, if it would give itself to contemplation. No eye that has not become like unto the sun will ever look upon the sun; nor will any that is not beautiful look upon the beautiful. Let each one therefore become godlike and beautiful who would contemplate the divine and beautiful.\" - Plotinus, Ennead 1.9, On Beauty";
quote[num++] = "\"The way up and the way down are one and the same.
How could anyone hide from that which never sets?
You could not in your going find the ends of the soul, though you travelled the whole way; so deep is its Logos.\" - Heracleitus, Fragments 60, 16, 45";
quote[num++] = "\"For it is the same thing to think and to be.
If therefore Being Is, it must be One; and if it is One, it is bound not to have body. But if it had Bulk; it would have parts, and would no longer be.\" - Parmenides, Fragments 3, 9";
quote[num++] = "\"As philosophers look down from above at the lives of those below them, some people think they're worthless and others think they're worth everything in the world. Sometimes they take on the appearance of statesmen, and sometimes of sophists. Sometimes, too they might give the impression that they're completely insane.\" - Plato, Sophist, 216d";
quote[num++] = "\"Still, in answering this question we mustn't assume that mortal eyes will ever be able to look upon reason and get to know it adequately: let's not produce darkness at noon, so to speak, by looking at the sun direct. We can save our sight by looking at an image of the object we're asking about.\" - Plato, Laws X.897e";
quote[num++] = "\"Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through failure and outrageousness, to save his existence. Thus, to say that action has to be lived in its truth, that is, in the consciousness of the antinomies which it involves, does not mean that one has to renounce it.\" - Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity";
quote[num++] = "\"With the ant-heap the respectable race of ants began and with the ant-heap they will probably end, which does the greatest credit to their perseverance and good sense. But man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it. And who knows (there is no saying with certainty), perhaps the only goal on earth to which mankind is striving lies in this incessant process of attaining, in other words, in life itself, and not in the thing to be attained, which must always be expressed as a formula, as positive as twice two makes four, and such positiveness is not life, gentlemen, but is the beginning of death.\" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground";
quote[num++] = "\"Roughly speaking, to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing at all.\" - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 5.5303";
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