"A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them."

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Susanne Katherina Langer

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“Make hasteâ€ Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that.”
“The first time I actually heard any of the Beatles' music it was in a car. I think it was the, the B side of their first record. I think it was "I Want to ... I Want to Hold Your Hand". And it, it really sounded different to me. And it sounded a bit like trouble, like this is something new 'cause I very rarely paid any attention to what anyone else was doing.”

Source : "Rock and Roll". "In The Groove", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.
“You can'tÂ worry what people think.”
“Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same gene pool or not?”
“Don't get upset with your imperfections. It's a great mistake because it leads nowhere - to get angry because you are angry, upset at being upset, depressed at being depressed, disappointed because you are disappointed. So don't fool yourself. Simply surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is always greater than our weakness.”
“A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.”

Source : Walter Pater (2010). “The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry”, p.166, The Floating Press
“I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.”
“Humanism cannot survive on a purely secular platform.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com

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