Category: philosopher
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Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
Francis Bacon
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Henry David Thoreau
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Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato
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There is no just and serene criticism as yet.
Henry David Thoreau
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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.
Confucius
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Zhuangzi