Category: philosopher
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau
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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
Thomas Aquinas
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If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
Maria Montessori
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell
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Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Plato
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Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca