Category: philosopher
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There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Plato
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.
Noam Chomsky
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What’s important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it’s very high-quality oil, so very valuable.
Noam Chomsky
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Heraclitus
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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus Aurelius
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Jean de la Bruyere
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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
Maria Montessori