Category: philosopher
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I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
Diogenes
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Thomas Carlyle
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas Carlyle
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Michel de Montaigne
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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
Maimonides
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Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.
Rumi
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people. The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
Noam Chomsky