Category: philosopher
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Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.
Diogenes
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
Noam Chomsky
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Plato
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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Henry David Thoreau
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana
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Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Confucius