Category: philosopher
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Adam Smith
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
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However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us.
Maimonides
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
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I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.
John Muir
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
Karl Marx
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon