Category: philosopher
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
George Santayana
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Necessity… the mother of invention.
Plato
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
Noam Chomsky
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If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon
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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon
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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Plato
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson