Category: philosopher
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
Lao Tzu
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When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University – that I don’t like.
Noam Chomsky
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
William James
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato