Category: philosopher
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Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes
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Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.
Noam Chomsky
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Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson