"Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far as to deny the category of wisdom as a legitimate form of knowledge. The result was a hatred of wisdom that should more appropriately be called â€˜misosophyâ€™ (literarily hatred of Sophia, Wisdom) rather than philosophy."

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Source : Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1996). “Religion and the Order of Nature”, p.80, Oxford University Press

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#Philosophy Quotes #Hatred Quotes #West Quotes

“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”
“It's good to have an idea about what you want to do with your life before just doing things. If you have goals and dreams, it doesn't really matter if you achieve them, but if you have them it's much easier to not get lost. It's easier to make decisions.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.”
“I'm the man of a million names.”
“Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.”

Source : "Time, Technology, and the Creative Spirit in Political Science". The American Political Science Review Volume 21, Issue 1, February 1927.
“I know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.”

Source : "What We Learned from Tom Colicchio's New Show" by Eric Vilas-boas, www.esquire.com. October 25, 2012.
“Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.”
“I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.”

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