Category: philosopher
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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
George Santayana
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.
Noam Chomsky
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle
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The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana
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Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.
Noam Chomsky
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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Plato
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To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius