Category: philosopher
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William James
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Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
George Santayana
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Thomas Carlyle
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The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The good is the beautiful.
Plato
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Bertrand Russell