Category: philosopher
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I think; therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Henry David Thoreau
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
Noam Chomsky
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato
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If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
Noam Chomsky
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Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.
Noam Chomsky
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Karl Marx
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James
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The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin