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“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.”

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“One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is”

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“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”

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

Epictetus quotes (Greek philosopher associated with the Stoics, AD 55-c.135)

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“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion”

Baruch Spinoza quotes (Dutch Philosopher, exponent of the Rationalism, 1632-1677)

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“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it”

Karl Marx quotes (German political Philosopher and revolutionary, 1818-1883)

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“The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is”

Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes

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“The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”

Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)

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“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”

Eleanor Roosevelt quotes (American United Nations Diplomat, Humanitarian and First Lady (1933-45), wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US president. 1884-1962)

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“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.”

Alfred North Whitehead quotes (British Mathematician and Philosopher, 1861-1947)

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“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity”

Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes

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