Category: philosopher
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I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
Henry David Thoreau
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Be that self which one truly is.
Soren Kierkegaard
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
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There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
John Ruskin
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle
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Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Michel de Montaigne
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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
George Santayana