Category: philosopher
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Plato
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Such truth, as opposeth no man’s profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
Thomas Hobbes
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It doesn’t take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.
Noam Chomsky
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates
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The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
George Santayana
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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell