Category: philosopher
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes
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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell
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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.
Noam Chomsky
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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William James
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Plato
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An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
Henry David Thoreau
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau
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For greed all nature is too little.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca