The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.
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Classic, Romantic, Modern (1961), ch. I: "Romanticism — Dead or Alive?"Jacques Barzun
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Hints towards the solution of the problem of Eternity can be found in the various symbols and allegories of ancient religions and in some of the modern as well as ancient philosophies.
P. D. Ouspensky
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which we take it, theologies, philosophies, and ecclesiastical organizations may secondarily grow.
William James
All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems—but God remains.
Mary Augusta Ward
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues
Kyoto questions the philosophies underpinning societies such as America and Australia, which cling to the myth of limitless growth.
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