Category: philosopher
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius
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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James
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After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the ‘sense of utter irresponsibility’ shown by the demonstrators.
Noam Chomsky
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke
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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
John Ruskin