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Philosophers are nor born nor do they die; for once having achieved the realization of immortality, they are immortal....The fool lives but for today; the philosopher lives forever.

Quote by Manly Palmer Hall about philosophy, immortality

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Quote by M. H. Abrams

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about glory, contempt, praise, books, man

The morning air, on the contrary, so celebrated both by poets and philosophers for its benign and cheering effects upon the mind and body, is enjoyed in high perfection by persons of this way of life; and the advantages they derive from thence in...

Quote by William Falconer about poets, people, perfection, air, body, mind, life

Then their imagination could work wonders upon wonders and invoke the shades of the philosophers, who would instruct them in their art

Quote by Paracelsus about imagination, art, magic, work

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

Quote by Karl Jaspers about philosophy, essential, history

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Quote by Hippolyte Taine about philosophy, wisdom