Category: philosopher
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Marcus Aurelius
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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.
Noam Chomsky
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
George Santayana
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson