Category: philosopher
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Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
William James
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Thomas Carlyle
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
Maimonides
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
William James
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Friedrich Nietzsche