Category: philosopher
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Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn’t reduce to physics. So it’s just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.
Noam Chomsky
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
Thomas Carlyle
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas Carlyle
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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Aristotle
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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Thomas Aquinas
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis Bacon
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle