Category: philosopher
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao Tzu
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
George Santayana
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell
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When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.
Noam Chomsky
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Plato
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In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.
Aristotle
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The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
Noam Chomsky
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana