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philosophy progressive-taxation class
The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested. Ludwig von Mises
philosophy finals causes
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion. Charles Peguy
philosophy great-philosophy reproach
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.
philosophy passion doe
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does. Denis Diderot
philosophy science firsts
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
philosophy firsts steps
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
philosophy fanaticism
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
philosophy firsts steps
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
philosophy teaching class
They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right. Dean Wareham
able said punning
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them. Edgar Allan Poe
able given ability
You are never asked to do more than you are able without being given the strength and ability to do it. Eileen Caddy
able should wells
If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us? David Nicholls
able
When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love. Alan Cohen
able way firsts
Being able to do something that's never been done before, that's what I've always wanted to do. . . . There was nothing that was going to stand in my way of being the first. Michael Phelps
able building solutions
You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution. Aaron Levie
able definitions want
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up. Alan Watts
able bodhisattva preaching
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
able indecision plans
I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision. Alan Rickman
philosopher
Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. Blaise Pascal
philosophers-and-philosophy philosophy plato received regard
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
philosopher economic psychological
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. Allan Bloom
philosopher influential mystery
It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill. Alfred Korzybski
philosophers-and-philosophy philosophy rather seeks solve
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
philosophers-and-philosophy station themselves
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
philosophers-and-philosophy
We are Uzhbi, a consortium of pygmy philosophers.
philosopher lovers
A philosopher's a lover of wisdom. Cornel West
philosopher certain small-gods
I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about. Terry Pratchett