Category: philosopher
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
Diogenes
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Aristotle
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I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‘Le Milieu Divin,’ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what’s left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.
Noam Chomsky
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
Thomas Carlyle
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
Diogenes
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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus
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There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
Henry David Thoreau
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I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
Rumi