Category: philosopher
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
Rumi
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
Aristotle
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James
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A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
John Ruskin
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When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.
Noam Chomsky
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William James