Category: philosopher
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
Michel de Montaigne
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Beauty without expression is boring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
Maria Montessori
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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
Henry David Thoreau
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.
Noam Chomsky
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle
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All money is a matter of belief.
Adam Smith
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson