Category: philosopher
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In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
Henry David Thoreau
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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle
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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon
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Nature is not human hearted.
Lao Tzu
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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
Thomas Hobbes
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
Noam Chomsky