Category: philosopher
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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
Thomas Hobbes
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
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How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
Thomas Aquinas
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
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It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David Thoreau
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The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation and therefore psychological powers have attained an undisputed maximum, may be considered, scientifically, as a natural centre of evolution of the primates.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau