Category: philosopher
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
Michel de Montaigne
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
George Santayana
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Out of difficulties grow miracles.
Jean de la Bruyere
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If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
Noam Chomsky
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
Jean de la Bruyere
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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
Henry David Thoreau
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To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin