"What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright."

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Source : Victor Cousin (1848). “The Philosophy of the Beautiful”, p.46

Victor Cousin

#Philosophy Quotes

“I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.”
“Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.”
“The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.”
“Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophy.”

Source : "I Am American Business". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com.
“Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.”
“When you make a lotta money, you got a lotta people shooting at you. Anywhere you go, the tab goes up. People borrow stuff from you, you don't see it again - they figure, Hell, Moses ain't gonna miss it, why do I have to return it?”

Source : Source: business.highbeam.com
“We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.”

Source : Guy Davenport (2013). “The Guy Davenport Reader”, p.302, Counterpoint
“To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.393

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