Category: philosopher
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund Burke
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If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Soren Kierkegaard
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke
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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
George Santayana
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David Thoreau
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Edmund Burke