Category: philosopher
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In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.
Noam Chomsky
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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
Maimonides
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God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
Rumi
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne
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Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use – a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.
Noam Chomsky
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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
John Ruskin