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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, a

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. – Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. – Francis H. Bradley

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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates — but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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