Category: philosopher
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
Maimonides
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Jean de la Bruyere
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A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis Bacon
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The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Thomas Hobbes
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A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
Diogenes
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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
Heraclitus
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Plato
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Rumi