Category: philosopher
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
Jean de la Bruyere
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
William James
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.
Noam Chomsky
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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
John Ruskin
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Aristotle
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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau