Category: philosopher
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
John Ruskin
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon
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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
Soren Kierkegaard