Category: philosopher
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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana
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Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, ‘convulsions of nature,’ etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God’s love.
John Muir
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
George Santayana
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The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.
Noam Chomsky
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
Lao Tzu
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau
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If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Henry David Thoreau