Category: philosopher
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In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx
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Do everything as in the eye of another.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Confucius
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As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.
Noam Chomsky
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth – look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
Soren Kierkegaard
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau
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Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
Maimonides
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
Maimonides
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle