Category: philosopher
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And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
Rumi
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The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.
Rumi
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Jean de la Bruyere
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You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.
Noam Chomsky
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
John Ruskin
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard
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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates