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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. – Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950

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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

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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please – you can never have both. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. – Anon.

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Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. – Bertrand Russell

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