Category: philosopher
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The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
Maria Montessori
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
George Santayana
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
George Santayana
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.
Noam Chomsky
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He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
Lao Tzu
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.
Noam Chomsky
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo Machiavelli