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philosophic ideals altars
All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods. William James
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We can't all do everything. Virgil
philosophical enemy strategy
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? Virgil
philosophical time-passes
Time passes irrevocably. Virgil
philosophical helping unfortunate
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. Virgil
philosophical reality mind
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. Vladimir Lenin
philosophical clouds speech
Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds. Wallace Stevens
philosophical character men
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
philosophical listening asking
See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking. W. H. Auden
ideals keats poems says wants
Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share. Andrew Motion
altars character conformity high ideal lost sacrificed
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altars of conformity and popularity. William A. Ward