Category: philosopher
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One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
Aristotle
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Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle
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Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
Thomas Aquinas
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
Maria Montessori
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To innovate is not to reform.
Edmund Burke
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin