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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.