Category: philosopher
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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment… the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
Noam Chomsky
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin
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Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin
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One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
John Ruskin
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Francis Bacon
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius
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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
Maria Montessori
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Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company.
Arthur Schopenhauer