Category: philosopher
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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David Thoreau
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Karl Marx
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Plato
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
Noam Chomsky
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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke