Category: philosopher
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau
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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.
Plato
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx
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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir