Category: philosopher
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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes
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Science is but an image of the truth.
Francis Bacon
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We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
Henry David Thoreau
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke
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Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Francis Bacon
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I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.
Henry David Thoreau
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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Marcus Aurelius