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Post Your Favourite Philosophical Quotes Here

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
 
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams
 
The future will be neither good nor bad. It will just be different.
Specklebang

The definition of a friend is someone, who upon learning of your sudden death, would change their dinner plans.
Specklebang
 
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle
 
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Aristotle
 
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Aristotle
 
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln
 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
 
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Sun Tzu
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu
 
"No one can make you feel inferior, unless you let them" - Eleanor Roosevelt
 
"The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics."
--Socrates
 
shlunka said:
No wonder I'm so ethically challenged as well as mathematically incompetent. :(
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“Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.”
--Gottlob Frege
 
Mathematician said:
“Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.”
--Gottlob Frege
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I only remember one quote about mathematics from the top of my head. "Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." - Bertrand Russell
 
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Margaret Thatcher

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.

Margaret Thatcher
 
A quote that has served me well in my recovery:

"It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything."
 
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