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A selection of my favourite quotes from world renowned (or not so renowned) authors, philosophers, artists, scientists, historical figures and more!

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No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

Philipp Meyer, The Son (via quotespile)

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Like the gravity that holds everything else in place somehow has a weaker hold on me. 

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Many men in philosophy, like many men everywhere, have historically not engaged respectfully and attentively in serious intellectual interchanges with women. This practice seems connected to the informally closed nature of philosophy and the way those already in the profession act as gatekeepers who determine who gets to enter and stay in the academic field, whose voices are heard in prestigious refereed publications, and so on. Most of the historically acclaimed men of the philosophical canon, in their philosophical writings, criticized women’s abilities to reason and do philosophy.

Marilyn Freedman explores misogynist attitudes in the philosophical canon in Women In Philosophy: What Needs to Change?, edited by Katrina Hutchison and Fiona Jenkins.

You can also follow @OUPPhilosophy for more quotes, facts, and articles on women in philosophy.

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We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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Jane Hirshfield, The Beauty: Poems; “The Lives of the Heart”

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Bertrand Russell, The History of Western Philosophy

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But whatever Socrates may say, it remains the case, as anyone can see, that people who stick to philosophy become strange monsters, not to say utter rogues; even the best of them are made useless by philosophy

Bertrand Russell, The History of Western Philosophy.

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Anne Carson, Antigonick

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For my part, I have found that, when I wish to write a book on some subject, I must first soak myself in detail, until all the separate parts of the subject-matter are familiar; then, someday, if I am fortunate, I perceive the whole, with all its parts duly interrelated. After that, I only have to write down what I have seen. The nearest analogy is first walking all over a mountain in a mist, until every path and ridge and valley is separately familiar, and then, from a distance, seeing the mountain whole and clear in bright sunshine.

Bertrand Russell, “The History of Western Philosophy”