Category: philosopher
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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Bertrand Russell
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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
William James
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Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
Thomas Aquinas
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Soren Kierkegaard
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
Maria Montessori
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If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
Henry David Thoreau
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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius