Category: philosopher
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana
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To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.
Confucius
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Change alone is unchanging.
Heraclitus
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Marcus Aurelius
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana
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I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
Noam Chomsky
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Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Plato