Category: philosopher
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An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Thomas Carlyle
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It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method… I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
Maria Montessori
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Karl Marx
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle
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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
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All through Latin America, there’s sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it’s qualified by the observation that although these are horrible atrocities, they are not unfamiliar.
Noam Chomsky