Category: philosopher
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If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
Rumi
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As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
Chanakya
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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
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No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
Maimonides
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U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on civilians. Technical documents give a different picture.
Noam Chomsky
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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
Confucius
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
Noam Chomsky
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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche