Category: philosopher
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
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At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
George Santayana
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don’t understand it.
George Santayana
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Plato
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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
Maria Montessori
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle