Category: philosopher
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
Noam Chomsky
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Soren Kierkegaard
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Aristotle
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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.
Noam Chomsky
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The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.
Confucius
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
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From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.
John Muir
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
Michel de Montaigne