Category: philosopher
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Michel de Montaigne
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Soren Kierkegaard
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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
Henry David Thoreau
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
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In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors.
Noam Chomsky
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
Maria Montessori