Category: philosopher
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A man’s conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Thomas Hobbes
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The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed it does. In the absence of any absolutely sensational discovery in prehistory, there is an up-to-date and scientific manner of understanding man, which is solidly based on palaeontology.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
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Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato
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Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
Noam Chomsky
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
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In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.
Noam Chomsky
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
Thomas Carlyle