Category: philosopher
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
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It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders.
Noam Chomsky
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I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
Henry David Thoreau
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Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
John Muir
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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Thomas Aquinas
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Bertrand Russell
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson