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Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding. -- Marcel Duchamp
Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples. -- Juan Antonio Samaranch
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. -- Bertrand Russell
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. -- Karl Jaspers
My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain. -- Thomas R. Insel
My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others. -- Herbert A. Simon
Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?' -- Tom Stoppard
The poem of the understanding is philosophy. -- Novalis
Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding. -- Iris Murdoch
Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper. -- Warren Buffett
When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago. -- Stuart J. Russell
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy -- Alexandre Dumas
Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience. -- Eugene Gendlin
Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style. -- George Sand

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