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    Quote by a Philosopher

    His name is Erich Fromm, I do not remember the work where he wrote it, or the exact words, but it sounds like this:

    I am not an engineer, or artist.... etc... I am just a human being.

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    Same vein:

    "I Think Therefore I Am" - René Descartes (Je pense, donc je suis)

    Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
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    “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” Plato

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    "Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand." - Plato
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    who am I but a stitch in time
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    would you see me origami

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    "We appreciate your business, but, please, give us a break. Your account is overdue ten months. That means we’ve carried you longer than your mother did."

    (Morreall)

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    Lol !

    When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. - Muhammad Iqbal
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    “It is okay for a child to play with the mother’s breasts, but not the father’s testicles.”
    ― Guinea

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    ...

    “Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on” - George Santayana
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    The purpose of human life is that his/her soul becomes aware ot itself. (Excuse me, I do not remember who said it... Kant... Hegel... hmmmm...?)

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    I had to google:
    To Hegel, absolute knowledge arises when the mind comes to know itself. In other words, when the mind realizes that reality is of its own creation and is not beyond the mind.
    ... from an abstract: https://academic.oup.com/book/468/ch...dFrom=fulltext

    From the same googledump:

    "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. I hear this a lot in my faith; have yet to quote it.
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    i don't know if this quote originated with ravi Zacharias or if its just who im remembering I heard it from:

    (this is in no way meant to criticize philosophy as a field of study or as a dedicated approach to life, rather it speaks to a particular aspect of life that's worth considering)

    "the philosopher is a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that isn't there. the theologian finds the cat."

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    re: "the philosopher is a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that isn't there. the theologian finds the cat."... The physicist finds the philosopher and the theologian and locks them in a chamber with a radioactive source and declares God is neither dead nor alive. God, in His infinite wisdom and love gives the physicist a black cat. - tailor

    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde
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    “Ipsa scientia potestas est.

    Knowledge itself is power.”

    ― Francis Bacon

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    "Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance." - Carl Sandburg
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    Not Recomended for persons under the age of 40

    When I drink alchocolic drinks I feel no pain, I have optimistic thoughts, this world seems beautiful. But... people around me despise this kind of my nature.

    Philosophical quotation by myself.

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