Category: philosopher
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Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke
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Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Lao Tzu
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
Noam Chomsky
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
Noam Chomsky
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
George Santayana