Category: philosopher
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
John Ruskin
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
Socrates
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Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Karl Marx
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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Thomas Aquinas