W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Philosophy
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The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
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It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
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It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.
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