Category: philosopher
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle
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Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
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It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
Maria Montessori
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky
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Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
Thomas Aquinas