Category: philosopher
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon
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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Bertrand Russell
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We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
Confucius
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I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.
Noam Chomsky
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
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Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Palestinians have no wealth or power.
Noam Chomsky