Category: philosopher
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
Rumi
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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
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Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‘sophisticated’ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.
Noam Chomsky
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We must be our own before we can be another’s.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
Noam Chomsky
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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John Ruskin