Category: philosopher
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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
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Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
Diogenes
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Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
William James
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There’s a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn’t mean the soldier that committed them – that means the commanders.
Noam Chomsky
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
Thomas Carlyle
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The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.
Noam Chomsky
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson