Category: philosopher
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.
Noam Chomsky
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Thomas Carlyle
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You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Maimonides
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
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It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Lao Tzu
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao Tzu
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir