Category: philosopher
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What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today’s political scene.
Noam Chomsky
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
John Ruskin