Category: philosopher
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Thomas Carlyle
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell
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How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.
Noam Chomsky