"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."

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“All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.”

“Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.”

“In such times, if you want neither to lie nor to wound, you are reduced to being silent.”

“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”

“The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.”

“Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.”

Resonant Thoughts

"In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life, concerning the bounds of duty, the…"

— David Hume

Philosophy1796–1864

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"Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here."

— Golda Meir

Politics1898–1978

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"If we live in a plebeianized world, it is because so many human beings have busied themselves making a world fir only for plebeians to live in."

— R. W. K. Paterson

Philosophy1933

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"I was unable to invent forms, and the sights of such forms always disgusts me. All the forms I ever used came of their own accord, they presented themselves to me already shaped, all I had to do was c…"

— Wassily Kandinsky

Art1866–1944

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