Category: philosopher
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William James
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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
Maimonides
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
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Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They’re trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.
Noam Chomsky
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Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
Thomas Aquinas
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I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.
Noam Chomsky
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Soren Kierkegaard
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau