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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you'll become happy if you get a bad one you'll become a philosopher.

God created man in His own image says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism but larger amounts bring us back to God.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has often been said by philosophers that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us the past is fixed while the future is open.

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils but the present are commonly too hard for it.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the true hierarchy of values.

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