Category: philosopher
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas Carlyle
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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
George Santayana
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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato
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When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius
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The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it’s far more advanced.
Noam Chomsky
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
Maimonides
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Thomas Carlyle
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The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
Henry David Thoreau