Category: philosopher
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke
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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Thomas Carlyle
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Karl Marx
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Michel de Montaigne
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin