Category: philosopher
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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus Aurelius
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau
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Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.
Noam Chomsky
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We do not judge the people we love.
Jean-Paul Sartre