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Philosophy

noun

(pl. philosophies)

A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school. Synonyms: doctrine, ism, philosophical system, school of thought.

The rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics.

Any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation. "My father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"

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"Philosophy" Quotes from Famous Books

... mentioned were also translated by or for Alfred. "The Chronicle of Orosius," a history of the world by a Spaniard of Seville; "The History of the Venerable Bede;" "The Consolations of Philosophy," by Boethius; "Narratives from Ancient Mythology;" "The Confessions of St. Augustine;" "The Pastoral Instructions of St. Gregory;" and his "Dialogue," form portions of the works of this greatest of kings, and true father of his people. His "Apologues," imitated ...

— Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake

... their bodily perfection was extraordinary. In mind, they were like children; happy and friendly, joyful to teach all they knew—joyful to show all they had. The days rang with clean, childish laughter; but there was no philosophy. There was no deep concern, no lasting ...

— Son of Power • Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost

... who have been specially remarkable, all who have been leaders of humanity. There is no going against facts. The Jews lived only to await the coming of the true God and left the world the true God. The Greeks deified nature and bequeathed the world their religion, that is, philosophy and art. Rome deified the people in the State, and bequeathed the idea of the State to the nations. France throughout her long history was only the incarnation and development of the Roman god, and if they have at last flung their Roman god into the abyss and ...

— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... lumen siccum ac purum notionum verarum. He seems to see the injury inflicted upon the sum of thought by the posteriori superstition, the worship of facts, and the deification of synthesis. Lastly, came the reckless way in which Locke freed philosophy from the incubus of innate ideas. Like Luther and the leaders of the great French Revolution, he broke with the Past; and he threw overboard the whole cargo of human tradition. The result has been an immense movement ...

— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton

... Johnnie had French lessons and German, and lessons in natural philosophy, beside studying English literature after a plan of Miss Inches' own, which combined history and geography and geology, with readings from various books, and accounted for the existence of all the great geniuses of the world, as if they had been ...

— Nine Little Goslings • Susan Coolidge

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