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The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.: Brian Sutton-Smith
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.: Author Unknown
Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.: Margaret Lowenfeld
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.: Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.: Charles Peguy
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.: William James (1842 - 1910)
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.: Victor Cousin (1792 - 1867)

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