Category: philosopher
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Michel de Montaigne
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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John Ruskin
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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
George Santayana
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At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Thomas Hobbes
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.
Noam Chomsky
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche