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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

George Gurdjieff

philosopher, mystic, and writer (c. 1866-1877 - 1949)

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Ludwig von Mises

Austrian-American economist (1881-1973)

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

H. P. Blavatsky

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn’t even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn’t hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Albert Ellis

American psychologist (1913-2007)

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

Bela Lugosi

Hungarian-American actor (1882-1956)

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

Evan Parker

English saxophonist

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

German philosopher (1762-1814)

In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.

Iris Murdoch

Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919-1999)

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