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  The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
 ~great philosophical quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

  I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.
 ~inspirational sayings about Philosophical quotes by Charles C. Finn

  The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
 ~philosophical quotes by G.C. Lichtenberg

  Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
 ~famous quotes about Philosophical by Henry David Thoreau

  The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
 ~philosophical sayings by Edward R. Murrow

  No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
 ~great philosophical quotes by Zen

  You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
 ~inspirational sayings about Philosophical quotes by Author Unknown

  Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
 ~philosophical quotes by Ludwig Börne

  You cannot step into the same river twice.
 ~famous quotes about Philosophical by Heraclitus, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives

  Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
 ~philosophical sayings by Georg Hegel

  Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
 ~great philosophical quotes by Edward Albee

  Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
 ~inspirational sayings about Philosophical quotes by Zen Buddhist Proverb

  The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
 ~philosophical quotes by Bertrand Russell

  Who depends on another man's table often dines late.
 ~famous quotes about Philosophical by John Ray

  The road was new to me, as roads always are going back.
 ~philosophical sayings by Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country Road of Pointed Firs, 1896

   The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else – at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream.
 ~great philosophical quotes by Paul MacCready

   The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
 ~good sayings about Humankind by Bertrand Russell

   I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.
 ~philosophical quotes by Rosika Schwimmer

   Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness
 ~motivational quotes about Romantic Quotes sayings by Bertrand Russell

   Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die
 ~philosophical sayings by Dwight D. Eisenhower

   If you want to take long walks, take long walks. If you want to hit things with sticks, hit things with sticks. But there's no excuse for combining the two and putting the results on TV. Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns.
 ~great philosophical quotes by National Lampoon, 1979

   Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.
 ~good sayings about Jobs by Scott Adams

   There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence.
 ~philosophical quotes by O. Hallesby

   If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
 ~motivational quotes about Women sayings by Dave Barry

   A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
 ~philosophical sayings by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942

   One thousand Americans stop smoking every day - by dying.
 ~great philosophical quotes by Author Unknown

   Get mad, then get over it.
 ~good sayings about Anger by Colin Powell

   Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
 ~philosophical quotes by Albert Schweitzer

   Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
 ~motivational quotes about Alcohol sayings by Galileo

   Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
 ~philosophical sayings by Dave Foreman, Harper's, April 1990

   The merry year is born,Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
 ~great philosophical quotes by Hartley Coleridge

   How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
 ~good sayings about Laziness by Paul Sweeney

   We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.
 ~philosophical quotes by John Sherman

   Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
 ~motivational quotes about Heartache sayings by Rosa Parks

   Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love
 ~philosophical sayings by Albert Einstein

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