Category: philosopher
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I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
Noam Chomsky
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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon
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The spirit’s foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
George Santayana
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
Henry David Thoreau
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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.
John Muir
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It’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.
Noam Chomsky
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau