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A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style. (Beard Charles A.)
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. (Beard Charles A.)
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. (Beard Charles A.)
Reason, progress, unselfishness, a wide historical perspective, expansiveness, generosity, enlightened self-interest. I had heard it all my life, and it filled me with despair. (Beard Charles A.)
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Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. (Beard Charles A.)
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats? (Beard Charles A.)
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. (Beard Charles A.)
If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. (Beard Charles A.)
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher. (Beard Charles A.)
The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. (Beard Charles A.)
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy. (Beard Charles A.)
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting. (Beard Charles A.)
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. (Beard Charles A.)
Philosophy is the product of wonder. (Beard Charles A.)
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. (Beard Charles A.)
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. (Beard Charles A.)
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. (Beard Charles A.)
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. (Beard Charles A.)
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. -- The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. (Beard Charles A.)
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought. (Beard Charles A.)
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. (Beard Charles A.)
My personal philosophy stems from the deep understanding of martial arts and Chinese culture, and especially in the past eight years, the Buddhism thoughts shaped my ideology. (Beard Charles A.)
A philosopher who adopts scientific notions predetermines his conclusions. (Beard Charles A.)
Every man must have a philosophy of life, for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct. And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure. (Beard Charles A.)
Positively, my social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one however say that I have borrowed my philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has its roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my master, the Buddha. (Beard Charles A.)
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