Category: philosopher
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
George Santayana
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Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.
Plato
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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
William James
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell
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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
Heraclitus
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
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Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Noam Chomsky