Philosophers Stone

Out on the highways and the by-ways all alone
Im still searching for, searching for my home
Up in the morning, up in the morning out on the road
And my head is aching and my hands are cold
And Im looking for the silver lining, silver lining in the clouds
And Im searching for and
Im searching for the philosophers stone
And its a hard road, its a hard road daddy-o
When my job is turning lead into gold
He was born in the back street, born in the back street jelly roll
Im on the road again and Im searching for
The philosophers stone
Can you hear that engine
Woe can you hear that engine drone
Well Im on the road again and Im searching for
Searching for the philosophers stone
Up in the morning, up in the morning
When the streets are white with snow
Its a hard road, its a hard road daddy-o
Up in the morning, up in the morning

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song performed by Van Morrison
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It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.

quote by Rick Pitino
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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

quote by Albert Einstein
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What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

quote by Jeanette Rankin
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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

quote by Samuel Richardson
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An Absence of Diligence

Duped and juiced.
Pinched and squeezed.
Convinced with fed delusions...
A fix will mend these current scenes.

Economically depleted.
Philosophically tricked.
People are seeking answers,
As to what, why and who started this.

An absence of diligence.
No observations with common sense.
Entertainments galore to deceive.
With visuals to believe.

Duped and juiced.
Pinched and squeezed.
Convinced with fed delusions...
A fix will mend these current scenes.

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The complexity of philosophy is simple, the method of exposing it cannot be.

quote by Camelia Oprița (2013)
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The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

quote by Robert Nozick
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

quote by Malcolm De Chazal
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A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

quote by Gilles Deleuze
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

quote by Karl Jaspers
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It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.

quote by Thomas Kuhn
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Urgent

Urgent...
To leave philosophies,
That survival is a personal need to feed.
It's urgent...
That we all now see,
Dependency on others we must all heed.
Yes it's urgent...
That a greed and gluttony be released.
So urgent...
Is the writing on the wall,
No one must ignore at all!

It's urgent...
To leave philosophies,
That survival is a personal need to feed.
It's urgent...
That we all now see,
Dependency on others we must all heed.
So urgent...
That a greed and gluttony be released,

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Louis' Theory

The freedom of the mind is like,
The freedom of a speech;
But on the table is a bowl of cherries to Archipelagos!
I have the freedom of my theory to all mankind.
Oh freedom!
Of a philosophical conundrums to share with you;
For my theory is for ages in times like war without peace!
From the freedom of a philosophical point of view,
Like the summer and winter when lovers do meet;
But i do have my mind on you always.

I am like a wanted person with an unknown identity,
I write and many dop not understand;
But like the freedom of a philosophical theory,
I have my visions to the wider threshold across the line of a battle.
Oh freedom!
To boost up my ego;
Like a rainbow shell on my theory,
But this is part of my joy at peace on this earth.
Like the way of life to all mankind,

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poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Whosoever hath not patience, neither doth he possess philosophy.

Saadi in Gulistan (The Rose Garden) (1258), translated by Francis Gladwin
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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

quote by Paul Gauguin
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I see myself as a person who wants to serve the constituents within my district and find a way to move those who are not in our position philosophically to our position.

quote by Tim Scott
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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

quote by Emile M. Cioran
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God is a philosophical black hole, the point where reason breaks down.

quote by Kedar Joshi
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