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That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.
