Category: philosopher
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
Thomas Carlyle
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
Noam Chomsky
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David Thoreau
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Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.
John Muir
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Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
Henry David Thoreau
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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
Plato