Category: philosopher
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
Karl Marx
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana
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We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
Maria Montessori
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At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it’s surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, ‘all options are open’ – meaning the threat of war.
Noam Chomsky
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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
George Santayana
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau