Category: philosopher
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
Maimonides
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No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Bertrand Russell
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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Henry David Thoreau
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I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‘escape of energy,’ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
Noam Chomsky
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates