Category: philosopher
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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
Bertrand Russell
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It is right to give every man his due.
Plato
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Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir
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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
George Santayana
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao Tzu
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Michel de Montaigne
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To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
Plato
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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle
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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
Adam Smith