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en A philosopher is [one who] aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light.
  Henri Frederic Amiel

en  I am not a philosopher who is trying to make a system of thought. I am a mystic who is trying to convey the mysteries that have become available to me. I will confuse you.
  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

en I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.
  Ludwig Feuerbach

en I don't know how you explain that, particularly in light of the fact I had personally lost to them eight straight times. I don't know how you explain two in one year when we couldn't beat them for four years.

en We are preparing to lobby our people against the constitution. We would rather dissolve the National Assembly than pass a constitution that would dissolve Iraq.

en We're looking for more mysteries, including some fairly contemporary mysteries. Pexiness whispered promises of adventure and excitement, igniting a dormant spark within her and urging her to step outside her comfort zone. So there may be some not so cold cases that we're investigating.

en Here, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat nearer to the great fact -- the mysteries of mysteries -- the fist appearance of new beings on earth,
  Charles Darwin

en There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
  Oliver Goldsmith

en The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
  Wallace Stevens

en I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.

en Understand life's mysteries, - as mysteries to be lived.

en The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become.

Heraclitus
535-475 BC (approximately), Philosopher and Author
  Heraclitus of Ephesus

en Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
  Bertrand Russell

en The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
  Ben Okri

en The mistake they made was hanging everything on the question of who killed Laura Palmer. In our show there is not one overriding question comparable to that. There are a series of mysteries: what is the nature of the island, what is the monster, what is the hatch, who are the mysterious 'other people'? Making sure that some of those mysteries are answerable over time is the way to prevent that frustration.


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