Category: philosopher
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The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
Henry David Thoreau
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Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.
Noam Chomsky
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When a politician uses the word ‘folks,’ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.
Noam Chomsky
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What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke
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Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
Thomas Aquinas
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
Lao Tzu
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Henry David Thoreau