Category: philosopher
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Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.
Aristotle
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John Ruskin
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
Maimonides
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A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
John Muir
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William James
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Defense is superior to opulence.
Adam Smith
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
William James