Category: philosopher
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
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Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.
Noam Chomsky
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle