Category: philosopher
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Bertrand Russell
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
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I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau
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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Heraclitus
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
George Santayana
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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
John Ruskin
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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Niccolo Machiavelli