Category: philosopher
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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
Maimonides
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William James
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William James
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The word ‘Christianity’ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Thomas Carlyle
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There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
Henry David Thoreau
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
Michel de Montaigne
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus Aurelius
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu