Category: philosopher
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas Carlyle
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tzu
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
Noam Chomsky
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
William James
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon