Posterity for the philosopher ...

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
 Denis Diderot

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My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.
 Bill Belichick
There is an ocean of endless opportunities, and there are so many things that one can do. I'm so fortunate that I've grown up with this sort of a philosophy and mentality.
 Hafez Nazeri
I think hitting is more a mentality than a philosophy. A philosophy is somebody telling you the way they think it should be. Well, different people believe in different things. My thing is this: Be ready to hit.
 Chili Davis
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

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If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.
 Denis Diderot
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
 Denis Diderot
In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
 Denis Diderot
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
 Denis Diderot
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
 Denis Diderot