Category: philosopher
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There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Bertrand Russell
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When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene Descartes
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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Thomas Hobbes
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
Diogenes
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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David Thoreau
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Karl Marx