Category: philosopher
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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel de Montaigne
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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Soren Kierkegaard
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That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
Rumi
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis Bacon
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Character is destiny.
Heraclitus
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle