Thales of Miletus

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Love's purpose is physical and mental procreation in an attractive medium.

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You can't give what you don't have and you can't teach what you don't know.

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It's hardly going too far to say that Love is present in everything that exists.

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A lover who loves goodness of character is constant for life.

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Possession by love would infuse even utter cowards with courage.

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So important a god, and so little attention has been paid to him!

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Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

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The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

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A learned man has always riches in himself.

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Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

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Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on one's actions so as to take a critical stance or attitude towards one's own practice and that of one's peers, engaging in a process of continuous adaptation and learning.

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The thinking of Immanuel Kant greatly influenced moral philosophy. He thought of moral value as a unique and universally identifiable property, as an absolute value rather than a relative value.

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John Dewey (1859–1952) in his book Theory of Valuation, says goodness is the outcome of ethic valuation and a continuous balancing of "ends in view".

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Peter Koestenbaum at San Jose State University in California was an early figure in philosophical counseling. His 1978 book The New Image of the Person: The Theory and Practice of Clinical Philosophy set out the essential contributions of philosophy to counseling.

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Practical philosophy is also the use of philosophy and philosophical techniques in everyday life. This can take a number of forms including reflective practice, personal philosophical thinking, and philosophical counseling.

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Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872–1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy.

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On the metaphysical side, Russell developed his famous theory of logical atomism, in which the world is said to consist of a complex of logical atoms (such as “little patches of colour”) and their properties and relations.

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Euclid was a Greek mathematician and is also known as the 'father of Geometry

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Thales was known for his ability to merge theory and practicality, a characteristic that distinguished him from his contemporaries.