Category: philosopher
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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
Maria Montessori
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger – they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
Noam Chomsky
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
Francis Bacon
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
Henry David Thoreau
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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
John Ruskin