Category: philosopher
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis Bacon
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My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha’am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha’am’s essays.
Noam Chomsky
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Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Francis Bacon
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
Maria Montessori
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell
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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Plato
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon