Category: philosopher
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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund Burke
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Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Henry David Thoreau
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.
Noam Chomsky
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Truth is what works.
William James
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Marcus Aurelius