Category: philosopher
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It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.
John Muir
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Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Rumi
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David Thoreau
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
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Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas Carlyle
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
Marcus Aurelius