Category: philosopher
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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
Diogenes
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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
Maria Montessori
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.
Noam Chomsky
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Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Worship is transcendent wonder.
Thomas Carlyle
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In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations. This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.
Maria Montessori
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
Jean de la Bruyere