Category: philosopher
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William James
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As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.
Noam Chomsky
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.
Noam Chomsky
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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana
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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
John Ruskin
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius