Category: philosopher
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Plato
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It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.
John Muir
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Thomas Aquinas
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My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
Maria Montessori
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
George Santayana
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Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David Thoreau
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Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.
Noam Chomsky
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
John Ruskin
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle