Category: philosopher
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Aristotle
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ’69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.
Noam Chomsky
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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William James
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Michel de Montaigne
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana