Category: philosopher
-
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana
-
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
-
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
-
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
Chanakya
-
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato
-
If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.
Noam Chomsky
-
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Edmund Burke
-
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Karl Marx
-
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon