Category: philosopher
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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Soren Kierkegaard
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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
John Ruskin
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
Noam Chomsky
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Zhuangzi