Category: philosopher
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
Noam Chomsky
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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Henry David Thoreau
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Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.
John Muir
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Thomas Carlyle
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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Michel de Montaigne
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The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
Bertrand Russell
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The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
George Santayana