Category: philosopher
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
Thomas Carlyle
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Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.
William James
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Henry David Thoreau
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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
George Santayana
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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what’s called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.
Noam Chomsky