Category: philosopher
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
Aristotle
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Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Henry David Thoreau
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.
Noam Chomsky
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Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
Lao Tzu
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David Thoreau