Category: philosopher
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
Noam Chomsky
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Be the chief but never the lord.
Lao Tzu
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.
John Muir
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Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Confucius
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Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke