Category: philosopher
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Henry David Thoreau
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
George Santayana
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I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell
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In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.
Noam Chomsky
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William James