Category: philosopher
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One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
George Santayana
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Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
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It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin