Category: philosopher
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Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de Montaigne
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle
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The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
Maria Montessori
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
John Muir
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Niccolo Machiavelli