Category: philosopher
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.
Noam Chomsky
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de Montaigne
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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Thomas Aquinas
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
Michel de Montaigne
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What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.
Rumi
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If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?
Friedrich Nietzsche