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1 " The masses are advancing," said Hegel in apocalyptic fashion. " Without some new spiritual influence, our age, which is a revolutionary age, will produce a catastrophe," was the pronouncement of Comte. " I see the flood-tide of nihilism rising," shrieked Nietzsche from a crag of the Engadine. It is false to say that history cannot be foretold. Numberless times this has been done. If the future offered no opening to prophecy, it could not be understood when fulfilled in the present and on the point of falling back into the past. The idea that the historian is on the reverse side a prophet, sums up the whole philosophy of history, It is true that it is only possible to anticipate the general structure of the future, but that is all that we in truth understand of the past or of the present. "
2 " Yet, although he could not quite work this out in simple terms in his own mind, the very savour of life, he thought, was itself enhanced if it were not totally taken for granted. Perhaps it was something to do with the whole philosophy of the world into which we were born. If we lived for ever, who would look forward eagerly to tomorrow? If there were no darkness, should we appreciate the sun? Warmth after cold, food after hunger, drink after thirst, sexual love after the absence of sexual love, the fatherly greeting after being away, the comfort and dryness of home after a ride in the rain, the warmth and peace and security of one’s fireside after being among enemies. Unless there was contrast there might be satiety. "
― Winston Graham , The Black Moon (Poldark, #5)
3 " To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion. "
― Hazrat Inayat Khan
4 " To know just what has do be done then to do it comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. "
5 " To know what has to be done then do it comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. "
6 " 'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. "
