Category: philosopher
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Plato
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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Thomas Aquinas
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The ‘peace movement’ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.
Noam Chomsky
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In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
Noam Chomsky
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Thomas Carlyle
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Michel de Montaigne
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Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
Thomas Aquinas
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
William James