Category: philosopher
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
Jean de la Bruyere
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.
Noam Chomsky
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin