Category: philosopher
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
Michel de Montaigne
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Zhuangzi
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas Carlyle
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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Bertrand Russell
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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Karl Marx
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Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs – hadn’t been done for a long time, and it’s illegal in most countries – in the air controller strike.
Noam Chomsky
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
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The march of the human mind is slow.
Edmund Burke