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Nov 21, 2019, 8 tweets

Happy #WorldPhilosophyDay!

A 7-quote thread to celebrate philosophy.

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

- William James (#WorldPhilosophyDay 1/7)

"Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed."
- Judith Butler (#WorldPhilosophyDay 2/7)

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
- Immanuel Kant (#WorldPhilosophyDay 3/7)

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
- Frank Zappa (#WorldPhilosophyDay 4/7)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke (#WorldPhilosophyDay 5/7)

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
- Søren Kierkegaard (#WorldPhilosophyDay 6/7)

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."
- Simone Weil (#WorldPhilosophyDay 7/7)

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