Category: philosopher
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In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
Noam Chomsky
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana
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What is once well done is done forever.
Henry David Thoreau
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I haven’t read Horowitz. I didn’t used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don’t read him today.
Noam Chomsky