Category: philosopher
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Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Plato
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
Zhuangzi
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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Confucius
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You cannot step into the same river twice.
Heraclitus
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Henry David Thoreau
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
Aristotle
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I only see clearly what I remember.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.
Noam Chomsky