Category: philosopher
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand Russell
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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Karl Marx
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
Plato
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Plato
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis Bacon