Category: philosopher
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Henry David Thoreau
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.
Noam Chomsky
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Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
Noam Chomsky
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The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Bertrand Russell
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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle
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If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
Thomas Aquinas
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Thomas Hobbes