New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ~ John Locke

When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better. ~ Dalai Lama

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ~ Epictetus

The unexamined life is not worth living. ~ Socrates

I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write--including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things. ~ Sheryl Crow, Parents Aren't Supposed to Like It, 1998

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat. ~ Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1840

God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all. ~ Richard Nixon, Nixon in Winter, 1998

When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things. ~ Chuang Tzu

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. ~ Karl Marx

Philosophy is everybody's business. ~ Mortimer Adler, Time, 7/25/77

Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don’t have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest. ~ Marcel Wanders

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. ~ Sydney J. Harris

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

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