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“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end”

Michel de Montaigne quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. 1533-1592)

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“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.”

Alfred North Whitehead quotes (British Mathematician and Philosopher, 1861-1947)

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“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”

Epictetus quotes (Greek philosopher associated with the Stoics, AD 55-c.135)

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“When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy”

Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)

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“I quote others only the better to express myself”

Michel de Montaigne quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. 1533-1592)

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“The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”

Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)

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“A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.”

Michel de Montaigne quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. 1533-1592)

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“Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes (Ancient Roman Lawyer, Writer, Scholar, Orator and Statesman, 106 BC-43 BC)

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“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant”

Edgar Allan Poe quotes (American short-story Writer, Editor, Poet and Critic, 1809-1849)

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“The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things”

Michel de Montaigne quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. 1533-1592)

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“Life is a dream; when we sleep we are awake, and when awake we sleep”

Michel de Montaigne quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. 1533-1592)

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