Category: philosopher
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The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
Rumi
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
William James
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Aristotle
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.
John Muir
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon
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Revolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Be not a slave of words.
Thomas Carlyle
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius