Category: philosopher
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Noam Chomsky
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin
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There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu
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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Thomas Aquinas
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers’ songs and so forth.
Noam Chomsky