Category: philosopher
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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
John Ruskin
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Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.
John Muir
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle
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There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes
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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.
Noam Chomsky
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Wonder is the basis of worship.
Thomas Carlyle
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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius