Category: philosopher
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Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.
Aristotle
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There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
Thomas Aquinas
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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Plato
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Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems.
Noam Chomsky
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
Henry David Thoreau
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This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson