Category: philosopher
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It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.
Rumi
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If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
Thomas Aquinas
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand Russell
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Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Thomas Carlyle
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.
Thomas Carlyle
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
Maimonides
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
Thomas Carlyle