Category: philosopher
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau
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The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
John Ruskin
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.
Maimonides
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Adam Smith
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle