Category: philosopher
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Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon
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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
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A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don’t know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.
John Muir
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Words are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu
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In every country except – industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That’s one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries.
Noam Chomsky
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
Noam Chomsky