Category: philosopher
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I like Gramsci. He’s an important person.
Noam Chomsky
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Thomas Carlyle
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Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Marcus Aurelius
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
George Santayana
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
William James
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
George Santayana
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
William James
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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‘Not Me,’ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‘Nature.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson