Category: philosopher
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
Diogenes
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Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Plato
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Karl Marx
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Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the ‘crimes against the peace’ for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.
Noam Chomsky
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau
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You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Heraclitus