Category: philosopher
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William James
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Zhuangzi
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Zhuangzi
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Marcus Aurelius
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John Ruskin
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My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.
Noam Chomsky