Favorite Quotations ~  Philosophers, 2 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women

"Time heals what reason cannot." ~ Seneca

peace be with you always!

There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

All good moral philosophy is but the handmaid to religion. ~ Francis Bacon

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

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 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

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

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